The error paths set err, but it's not returned. I wondered if we should fix all of the callers to check the returned value, but Ben explains why the code is this way:
> Most call sites ignore it on purpose. There's nothing we can do if > we fail to get a buffer at interrupt time, so we point the buffer to > the scratch page so the HW doesn't DMA into lalaland and lose the > packet. > > The one call site that tests and can fail is the one used when brining > the interface up. If we fail to allocate at that point, we fail the > ifup. But as you noticed, I do have a bug not returning the error. Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <j...@jms.id.au> --- drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c index fce0aa4f78b7..33b5c8eb9961 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c @@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ static int ftgmac100_alloc_rx_buf(struct ftgmac100 *priv, unsigned int entry, struct net_device *netdev = priv->netdev; struct sk_buff *skb; dma_addr_t map; - int err; + int err = 0; skb = netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(netdev, RX_BUF_SIZE); if (unlikely(!skb)) { @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ static int ftgmac100_alloc_rx_buf(struct ftgmac100 *priv, unsigned int entry, else rxdes->rxdes0 = 0; - return 0; + return err; } static unsigned int ftgmac100_next_rx_pointer(struct ftgmac100 *priv, -- 2.13.3