Re: [PATCH] nvmem: core: don't check the return value of notifier chain call

[Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>]

On 15/02/2019 10:42, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
> 
> blocking_notifier_call_chain() returns the value returned by the last
> registered callback. A positive return value doesn't indicate an error
> and an nvmem device should correctly register irrespective of any
> notifier callback failures. Drop the retval check.
> 
> Fixes: bee1138bea15 ("nvmem: add a notifier chain")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>

Thanks for the fix!

Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>

> ---
>   drivers/nvmem/core.c | 4 +---
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> index f7301bb4ef3b..3ce65927e11c 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> @@ -686,9 +686,7 @@ struct nvmem_device *nvmem_register(const struct nvmem_config *config)
>   	if (rval)
>   		goto err_remove_cells;
>   
> -	rval = blocking_notifier_call_chain(&nvmem_notifier, NVMEM_ADD, nvmem);
> -	if (rval)
> -		goto err_remove_cells;
> +	blocking_notifier_call_chain(&nvmem_notifier, NVMEM_ADD, nvmem);
>   
>   	return nvmem;
>   
>