Re: [RESEND] [PATCH 1/1] block: Fix id of xsysace with missing port-number

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu,  2 May 2013 22:27:45 +0200 Gernot Vormayr <gvormayr@gmail.com> wrote:

> If the port number is missing from the device-tree the device gets
> named xs` instead of xsa. This fixes the check for missing ids.
> 
> Tested on ml507 board.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gernot Vormayr <gvormayr@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/block/xsysace.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/xsysace.c b/drivers/block/xsysace.c
> index 1f38643..6b5807a 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/xsysace.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/xsysace.c
> @@ -1161,8 +1161,7 @@ static int ace_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
>  	dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "ace_probe(%p)\n", dev);
>  
>  	/* device id and bus width */
> -	of_property_read_u32(dev->dev.of_node, "port-number", &id);
> -	if (id < 0)
> +	if (of_property_read_u32(dev->dev.of_node, "port-number", &id))
>  		id = 0;
>  	if (of_find_property(dev->dev.of_node, "8-bit", NULL))
>  		bus_width = ACE_BUS_WIDTH_8;

err, yes.  If of_property_read_u32() fails to locate the property, `id'
remains unaltered.  That code appears to believe that
of_property_read_u32() puts its errno into `id'.

AFAICT, it is always a bug to fail to check the of_property_read()
return value (unless the caller somehow *knows* the property exists?). 
Perhaps these functions should be marked __must_check to locate and
prevent such bugs.