[PATCH v2] initcall: break loop immediately on failure

Caleb Connolly caleb.connolly at linaro.org
Tue Mar 5 15:55:13 CET 2024


The current ordering always results in func pointing to the next
function in the init_sequence. e.g. if fdtdec_setup() fails, ret will
be set to the error code, then func will be updated to point to
initf_malloc(), only then is ret checked and the loop broken. The end
result of this is that the "initcall failed at ..." error will point you
to initf_malloc(), when the error actually occured in fdtdec_setup()!

This can be quite confusing and result in a lot of time wasted debugging
code that has nothing to do with the failure (ask me how I know :P).

Adjust the for loop to check ret immediately after the call and break
early so that func will correctly reference the failed function.

Signed-off-by: Caleb Connolly <caleb.connolly at linaro.org>
---
Changes in v2:
- Don't drop the initialisation of ret (thanks Dan!).
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20240219183519.2183405-1-caleb.connolly@linaro.org/

Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at linaro.org>
---
 lib/initcall.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/initcall.c b/lib/initcall.c
index ce317af213ab..c8e2b0f6a386 100644
--- a/lib/initcall.c
+++ b/lib/initcall.c
@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ int initcall_run_list(const init_fnc_t init_sequence[])
 	enum event_t type;
 	init_fnc_t func;
 	int ret = 0;
 
-	for (ptr = init_sequence; func = *ptr, !ret && func; ptr++) {
+	for (ptr = init_sequence; func = *ptr, func; ptr++) {
 		type = initcall_is_event(func);
 
 		if (type) {
 			if (!CONFIG_IS_ENABLED(EVENT))
@@ -70,8 +70,10 @@ int initcall_run_list(const init_fnc_t init_sequence[])
 			debug("initcall: %p\n", (char *)func - reloc_ofs);
 		}
 
 		ret = type ? event_notify_null(type) : func();
+		if (ret)
+			break;
 	}
 
 	if (ret) {
 		if (CONFIG_IS_ENABLED(EVENT)) {
-- 
2.44.0



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