[PATCH 08/12] staging: dgap: tty.c: fixes ioctl param list

Lidza Louina lidza.louina at gmail.com
Tue Aug 27 17:20:13 UTC 2013


On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 09:48:38PM -0400, Lidza Louina wrote:
>> -static int dgap_tty_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
>> +static int dgap_tty_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned int cmd,
>>               unsigned long arg)
>
> Btw, now that this file compiles I see it in my static checker runs.
>
> dgap_tty_ioctl() takes a lock but always returns before unlocking.
>
>>  {
>>       struct board_t *bd;
>> @@ -3423,41 +3423,6 @@ static int dgap_tty_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file, unsigned in
>>
>>               return(-ENOIOCTLCMD);
>
> In other words, these return statements should be breaks so we hit
> the call to:
>
>         DGNC_UNLOCK(ch->ch_lock, lock_flags);

Hmm, I looked thru the code a few times, and it seems like
it unlocks before every return. Can you paste an example
where it does this?

Thanks,
Lidza


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