Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 02/10] mtd: powernv_flash: Don't treat OPAL_SUCCESS as an error

From: Boris Brezillon <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 09:50:14 +0100

On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:32:54 +1100
Cyril Bur <[email-masked]> wrote:

> While this driver expects to interact asynchronously, OPAL is well
> within its rights to return OPAL_SUCCESS to indicate that the operation
> completed without the need for a callback. We shouldn't treat
> OPAL_SUCCESS as an error rather we should wrap up and return promptly to
> the caller.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <[email-masked]>

Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <[email-masked]>

> ---
> I'll note here that currently no OPAL exists that will return
> OPAL_SUCCESS so there isn't the possibility of a bug today.
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c
> index f9ec38281ff2..ca3ca6adf71e 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c
> @@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ static int powernv_flash_async_op(struct mtd_info *mtd, enum flash_op op,
>  	if (token < 0) {
>  		if (token != -ERESTARTSYS)
>  			dev_err(dev, "Failed to get an async token\n");
> -
>  		return token;
>  	}
>  
> @@ -83,21 +82,25 @@ static int powernv_flash_async_op(struct mtd_info *mtd, enum flash_op op,
>  		return -EIO;
>  	}
>  
> +	if (rc == OPAL_SUCCESS)
> +		goto out_success;
> +
>  	if (rc != OPAL_ASYNC_COMPLETION) {
>  		dev_err(dev, "opal_flash_async_op(op=%d) failed (rc %d)\n",
>  				op, rc);
> -		opal_async_release_token(token);
> -		return -EIO;
> +		rc = -EIO;
> +		goto out;
>  	}
>  
>  	rc = opal_async_wait_response(token, &msg);
> -	opal_async_release_token(token);
>  	if (rc) {
>  		dev_err(dev, "opal async wait failed (rc %d)\n", rc);
> -		return -EIO;
> +		rc = -EIO;
> +		goto out;
>  	}
>  
>  	rc = opal_get_async_rc(msg);
> +out_success:
>  	if (rc == OPAL_SUCCESS) {
>  		rc = 0;
>  		if (retlen)
> @@ -106,6 +109,8 @@ static int powernv_flash_async_op(struct mtd_info *mtd, enum flash_op op,
>  		rc = -EIO;
>  	}
>  
> +out:
> +	opal_async_release_token(token);
>  	return rc;
>  }
>