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2014-04-03	err.h: use bool for IS_ERR and IS_ERR_OR_NULL	Joe Perches	1	-3/+4
	Use the more natural return of bool for these tests. No difference observed in .o files produced by gcc for x86. Remove the dentry description of kernel pointers left over from the 90's and 2002's cleanup move of parts of fs.h to err.h. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-15	PTR_RET is now PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO	Rusty Russell	1	-1/+4
	True, it's often used in return statements, but after much bikeshedding it's probably better to have an explicit name. (I tried just putting the IS_ERR check inside PTR_ERR itself and gcc usually generated no more code. But that clashes current expectations of how PTR_ERR behaves, so having a separate function is better). Suggested-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> Suggested-by: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-07-03	err.h: IS_ERR() can accept __user pointers	Dan Carpenter	1	-5/+5
	Sparse generates a false positive when you pass a __user or __iomem pointer to the IS_ERR() functions. drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1286.c:344:36: sparse: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces) drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1286.c:344:36: expected void const ptr drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1286.c:344:36: got unsigned int [noderef] [usertype] <asn:2>rtcregs We can silence these by adding a __force here and upgrading to Sparse v0.4.5-rc1 or later. This change has no effect when using current Sparse releases. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Acked-by: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22	include/linux/err.h: add a function to cast error-pointers to a return value	Uwe Kleine-König	1	-0/+8
	PTR_RET() can be used if you have an error-pointer and are only interested in the eventual error value, but not the pointer. Yields the usual 0 for no error, -ESOMETHING otherwise. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25	err.h: add __must_check to error pointer handlers	Jani Nikula	1	-5/+5
	Add __must_check to error pointer handlers to have the compiler warn about mistakes like: if (err) ERR_PTR(err); It found two bugs: Mar 12 Nikula Jani [PATCH] enclosure: fix error path - actually return ERR_PTR() on error Mar 12 Nikula Jani [PATCH] sunrpc: fix error path - actually return ERR_PTR() on error Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula@nokia.com> Cc: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15	err.h: add helper function to simplify pointer error checking	Phil Carmody	1	-0/+5
	There are quite a few instances in the kernel of checks of pointers both against NULL and against the errno range, handling both cases identically. This additional helper function would simplify such code. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07	Add an ERR_CAST() function to complement ERR_PTR and co.	David Howells	1	-0/+13
	Add an ERR_CAST() function to complement ERR_PTR and co. for the purposes of casting an error entyped as one pointer type to an error of another pointer type whilst making it explicit as to what is going on. This provides a replacement for the ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(p)) construct. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-09-27	[PATCH] consistently use MAX_ERRNO in __syscall_return	Randy Dunlap	1	-0/+4
	Consistently use MAX_ERRNO when checking for errors in __syscall_return(). [ralf@linux-mips.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-01	[PATCH] Fix IS_ERR Threshold Value	Ralf Baechle	1	-1/+3
	o Raise the maximum error number in IS_ERR_VALUE to 4095. o Make that number available as a new constant MAX_ERRNO. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-19	Fix get_unmapped_area sanity tests	Linus Torvalds	1	-1/+3
	As noted by Chris Wright, we need to do the full range of tests regardless of whether MAP_FIXED is set or not, so re-organize get_unmapped_area() slightly to do the sanity checks unconditionally.
2005-04-16	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	Linus Torvalds	1	-0/+31
	Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!