Re: [PATCH] scripts: kwboot: fix detection of timeout

[Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 09:10:19PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> In function kwboot_xm_sendblock() the loop that implements retrying to
> send a boot block might be quit if kwboot_tty_send or kwboot_tty_recv
> return a failure. In this case the value of the variable c that is
> expected to hold the response byte is uninitialized and most likely
> still holds an ACK from the previous call to kwboot_xm_sendblock().
> 
> So the right thing to do is not to clobber rc if it's already != 0.
> 
> The result of this patch in my current scenario is that kwboot dies with
> 
> 	xmodem: Connection timed out
> 
> when the SoC stops replying instead of continuing to try sending the
> remaining blocks which results in select() blocking for one second for
> each block.
> 
> Fixes: 0535713bbfa0 ("scripts: add kwboot tool")
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@kleine-koenig.org>

Applied, thanks

Sascha

> --
> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
> Cc: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
> Cc: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
> Cc: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>
> 
> I also tried to increase the timeout, but without success :-(. Will test
> a different USB-to-RS232 adapter ...
> ---
>  scripts/kwboot.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/kwboot.c b/scripts/kwboot.c
> index e06866052ba9..46328d8ed006 100644
> --- a/scripts/kwboot.c
> +++ b/scripts/kwboot.c
> @@ -376,21 +376,23 @@ kwboot_xm_sendblock(int fd, struct kwboot_block *block)
>  
>  	} while (c == NAK && retries-- > 0);
>  
> -	rc = -1;
> +	if (!rc) {
> +		rc = -1;
>  
> -	switch (c) {
> -	case ACK:
> -		rc = 0;
> -		break;
> -	case NAK:
> -		errno = EBADMSG;
> -		break;
> -	case CAN:
> -		errno = ECANCELED;
> -		break;
> -	default:
> -		errno = EPROTO;
> -		break;
> +		switch (c) {
> +		case ACK:
> +			rc = 0;
> +			break;
> +		case NAK:
> +			errno = EBADMSG;
> +			break;
> +		case CAN:
> +			errno = ECANCELED;
> +			break;
> +		default:
> +			errno = EPROTO;
> +			break;
> +		}
>  	}
>  
>  	return rc;
> -- 
> 2.1.3
> 
> 
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