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From:   Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org>
Date:   Mon, 30 Jul 2018 19:34:24 +0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwspinlock: Fix incorrect return pointers
To:     Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Cc:     Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
        linux-remoteproc@vger.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org>
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Hi Bjorn,

On 28 June 2018 at 10:32, Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org> wrote:
> The commit 4f1acd758b08 ("hwspinlock: Add devm_xxx() APIs to request/free
> hwlock") introduces one bug, that will return one error pointer if failed
> to request one hwlock, but we expect NULL pointer on error for consumers.
> This patch will fix this issue.
>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org>

Could you pick up this patch which fixes the incorrect return value
issue? Thanks.

> ---
>  drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_core.c |    8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_core.c b/drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_core.c
> index e16d648..2bad40d 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_core.c
> @@ -877,10 +877,10 @@ struct hwspinlock *devm_hwspin_lock_request(struct device *dev)
>
>         ptr = devres_alloc(devm_hwspin_lock_release, sizeof(*ptr), GFP_KERNEL);
>         if (!ptr)
> -               return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> +               return NULL;
>
>         hwlock = hwspin_lock_request();
> -       if (!IS_ERR(hwlock)) {
> +       if (hwlock) {
>                 *ptr = hwlock;
>                 devres_add(dev, ptr);
>         } else {
> @@ -913,10 +913,10 @@ struct hwspinlock *devm_hwspin_lock_request_specific(struct device *dev,
>
>         ptr = devres_alloc(devm_hwspin_lock_release, sizeof(*ptr), GFP_KERNEL);
>         if (!ptr)
> -               return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> +               return NULL;
>
>         hwlock = hwspin_lock_request_specific(id);
> -       if (!IS_ERR(hwlock)) {
> +       if (hwlock) {
>                 *ptr = hwlock;
>                 devres_add(dev, ptr);
>         } else {
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>


-- 
Baolin Wang
Best Regards