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Date:   Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:19:16 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To:     Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com>
Cc:     Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ideasonboard.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>,
        linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        dan.carpenter@linaro.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
        error27@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 next] media: i2c: fix error handling in
 ub960_rxport_add_serializer()
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On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 07:06:58AM -0700, Harshit Mogalapalli wrote:
> Smatch warns:
>  drivers/media/i2c/ds90ub960.c:1671 ub960_rxport_add_serializer():
>  err: 'rxport->ser.client' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
> 
> i2c_new_client_device() returns error pointers on failure and in
> dev_dbg statement we are dereferencing error pointer which is a bug.
> 
> Fix this by using IS_ERR() which checks for error pointers.

Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko