Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 3 authors, 2015-10-06

[PATCH] HID: hiddev: fix returned errno code in hiddev_connect()

From: Luis de Bethencourt <hidden>
Date: 2015-09-30 10:22:05
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Subsystem: hid core layer, the rest, usb hid/hidbp drivers (usb keyboards, mice, remote controls, ...) · Maintainers: Jiri Kosina, Benjamin Tissoires, Linus Torvalds

The driver is using -1 instead of the -ENOMEM defined macro to specify
that a buffer allocation failed. Since the error number is propagated,
the caller will get a -EPERM which is the wrong error condition.

Also, the smatch tool complains with the following warning:
hiddev_connect() warn: returning -1 instead of -ENOMEM is sloppy

Signed-off-by: Luis de Bethencourt <redacted>
---
 drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c
index 2f1ddca..c5290ff 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c
@@ -894,7 +894,7 @@ int hiddev_connect(struct hid_device *hid, unsigned int force)
 	}
 
 	if (!(hiddev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hiddev), GFP_KERNEL)))
-		return -1;
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	init_waitqueue_head(&hiddev->wait);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&hiddev->list);
-- 
2.5.1
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