linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regulator: max14577: Fix invalid return value on DT parse success

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Date:	Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:25:34 +0530
From:	Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@...aro.org>
To:	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>
Cc:	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: max14577: Fix invalid return value on DT parse success

On 21 February 2014 16:12, Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 15:54 +0530, Sachin Kamat wrote:
>> Hi Krzysztof,
>>
>> On 20 February 2014 20:49, Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com> wrote:
>> > This fixes bug introduced in 667a6b7a (regulator: max14577: Add missing
>> > of_node_put). The DTS parsing function returned number of matched
>> > regulators as success status which then was compared against 0 in probe.
>> >
>> > Result was a probe fail after successful parsing the DTS:
>> > max14577-regulator: probe of max14577-regulator failed with error 2
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>
>> > ---
>> >  drivers/regulator/max14577.c |    4 +++-
>> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/drivers/regulator/max14577.c b/drivers/regulator/max14577.c
>> > index 186df8785a91..6ba11a8dd23d 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/regulator/max14577.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/regulator/max14577.c
>> > @@ -168,11 +168,13 @@ static int max14577_regulator_dt_parse_pdata(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> >                         MAX14577_REG_MAX);
>> >         if (ret < 0) {
>> >                 dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Error parsing regulator init data: %d\n", ret);
>> > +               of_node_put(np);
>> > +               return ret;
>> >         }
>> >
>> >         of_node_put(np);
>> >
>> > -       return ret;
>> > +       return 0;
>> >  }
>>
>> Instead of so many changes here, you could simply make the following change
>> in the max14577_regulator_probe function.
>>
>> ret = max14577_regulator_dt_parse_pdata(pdev);
>> if (ret < 0)
>>         return ret;
>
> That still wouldn't be sufficient because later in probe() the 'ret' is
> not reassigned (if devm_regulator_register succeeds) and it is directly
> returned at the probe() end. So still the number of matched regulators
> would be returned as probe result.

Ah, you are right. In that case how about the following:

-  if (ret < 0) {
+ if (ret < 0)
      dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Error parsing regulator init data: %d\n", ret);
-  }
+ else
+      ret = 0;

I am just trying to see if we can avoid any code duplication.
-- 
With warm regards,
Sachin
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