linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] clk: mux: fix the return value of get

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Date:	Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:46:03 -0700
From:	Mike Turquette <mturquette@...aro.org>
To:	Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@...aro.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	patches@...aro.org, Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clk: mux: fix the return value of get_parent

Quoting Haojian Zhuang (2013-10-20 00:48:55)
> If there're no parents on the clock mux node, it should return 0, not an
> errnor code.
> 
> The orphan clock node is using get_parent() to get the index of its
> parents in__clk_init(). If the return value is negative, it'll be
> transformed to a u8 value (clk_mux_get_parent()). Then the orphan clock
> node tries to get its parent with the invalid index. It will only cause
> accessing memory beyond border.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@...aro.org>

Taken into clk-next.

Thanks!
Mike

> ---
>  drivers/clk/clk-mux.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk-mux.c b/drivers/clk/clk-mux.c
> index 4f96ff3..cc06015 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/clk-mux.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/clk-mux.c
> @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ static u8 clk_mux_get_parent(struct clk_hw *hw)
>                 for (i = 0; i < num_parents; i++)
>                         if (mux->table[i] == val)
>                                 return i;
> -               return -EINVAL;
> +               return 0;
>         }
>  
>         if (val && (mux->flags & CLK_MUX_INDEX_BIT))
> @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ static u8 clk_mux_get_parent(struct clk_hw *hw)
>                 val--;
>  
>         if (val >= num_parents)
> -               return -EINVAL;
> +               return 0;
>  
>         return val;
>  }
> -- 
> 1.8.1.2
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