[alsa-devel] [PATCH] OSS: fix error return in dma_ioctl()

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:04:53 +0100,
I wrote:
> 
> At Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:43:11 +0100,
> Roel Kluin wrote:
> > 
> > The returned error should stay negative
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  sound/oss/audio.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/sound/oss/audio.c b/sound/oss/audio.c
> > index b69c05b..7df48a2 100644
> > --- a/sound/oss/audio.c
> > +++ b/sound/oss/audio.c
> > @@ -838,7 +838,7 @@ static int dma_ioctl(int dev, unsigned int cmd, void __user *arg)
> >  					if ((err = audio_devs[dev]->d->prepare_for_input(dev,
> >  						     dmap_in->fragment_size, dmap_in->nbufs)) < 0) {
> >  						spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dmap_in->lock,flags);
> > -						return -err;
> > +						return err;
> 
> Hmm, looks like a wrong fix to me.
> Here, err itself is already negative, so you don't need to flip the
> sign.

My bad, I looked at the patch in a reverse way.
Now applied.  Thanks!


Takashi