linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/mtd/devices/spear_smi.c: failure test for null rather than negative integer

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Date:	Wed, 11 Jul 2012 10:01:57 +0100
From:	viresh kumar <viresh.kumar2@....com>
To:	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>,
	Shiraz Hashim <shiraz.hashim@...com>
CC:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, Stefan Roese <sr@...x.de>,
	"kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	spear-devel <spear-devel@...t.st.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/mtd/devices/spear_smi.c: failure test for null
 rather than negative integer

Adding spear-devel mailing list in cc.

@Shiraz: Can you update ST's mailing list address in entire MAINTAINERS file, so
that people can include ST's list easily?

On 11/07/12 09:58, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
>
> dev_get_platdata returns a pointer, so the failure value would be NULL
> rather than a negative integer.
>
> The semantic match that finds this problem is: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression x,e;
> statement S1,S2;
> @@
>
> *x = dev_get_platdata(...)
> ... when != x = e
> *if (x < 0) S1 else S2
> // </smpl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/devices/spear_smi.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/spear_smi.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/spear_smi.c
> index b85f183..7c10466 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/devices/spear_smi.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/spear_smi.c
> @@ -935,7 +935,7 @@ static int __devinit spear_smi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>               }
>       } else {
>               pdata = dev_get_platdata(&pdev->dev);
> -             if (pdata < 0) {
> +             if (!pdata) {
>                       ret = -ENODEV;
>                       dev_err(&pdev->dev, "no platform data\n");
>                       goto err;

Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>

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Viresh

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