On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 05:16:03PM +0800, Keguang Zhang wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The "desc" variable is NULL and PTR_ERR(NULL) is zero/success. Return
> > a negative error code instead.
> >
> > Fixes: d2d10ede04b1 ("mtd: rawnand: Add Loongson-1 NAND Controller Driver")
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > It's hard to know what the patch prefix should be here. Ideally when we
> > add a new driver we would use the patch prefix for the driver.
> >
> > Tired: subsystem: Add driver XXX
> > Wired: subsystem: XXX: Add driver for XXX
> >
> > drivers/mtd/nand/raw/loongson1-nand-controller.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/loongson1-nand-controller.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/loongson1-nand-controller.c
> > index 6a369b1c7d86..8754bb4f8b56 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/loongson1-nand-controller.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/loongson1-nand-controller.c
> > @@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ static int ls1x_nand_dma_transfer(struct ls1x_nand_host *host, struct ls1x_nand_
> > desc = dmaengine_prep_slave_single(chan, dma_addr, op->len, xfer_dir, DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT);
> > if (!desc) {
> > dev_err(dev, "failed to prepare DMA descriptor\n");
> > - ret = PTR_ERR(desc);
> > + ret = -ENOMEM;
>
> Thank you for fixing this issue.
> However, I believe -EIO is more appropriate than -ENOMEM, since
> dmaengine_prep_slave_single() can return errors other than -ENOMEM.
>
It's not an I/O error so -EIO isn't correct.
There are a bunch of reasons it could fail but most likely
dma_pool_alloc() failed. I think -ENOMEM is correct.
regards,
dan carpenter
