Re: [PATCH -next] mmc: aspeed: Fix return value check in aspeed_sdc_probe()

Andrew Jeffery andrew at aj.id.au
Tue Aug 27 09:40:37 AEST 2019



On Mon, 26 Aug 2019, at 21:27, Wei Yongjun wrote:
> In case of error, the function of_platform_device_create() returns
> NULL pointer not ERR_PTR(). The IS_ERR() test in the return value
> check should be replaced with NULL test.
> 
> Fixes: 09eed7fffd33 ("mmc: Add support for the ASPEED SD controller")
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1 at huawei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-aspeed.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-aspeed.c 
> b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-aspeed.c
> index 8bb095ca2fa9..d5acb5afc50f 100644
> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-aspeed.c
> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-aspeed.c
> @@ -261,9 +261,9 @@ static int aspeed_sdc_probe(struct platform_device 
> *pdev)
>  		struct platform_device *cpdev;
>  
>  		cpdev = of_platform_device_create(child, NULL, &pdev->dev);
> -		if (IS_ERR(cpdev)) {
> +		if (!cpdev) {
>  			of_node_put(child);
> -			ret = PTR_ERR(cpdev);
> +			ret = -ENODEV;
>  			goto err_clk;
>  		}
>  	}

I ... have no idea why I wrote it that way. I must have just assumed it returned
an ERR_PTR(). Thanks for finding/fixing that.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au>


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