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Message-ID: <20150512204556.GO23057@wotan.suse.de>
Date:	Tue, 12 May 2015 22:45:56 +0200
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@...onical.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>,
	Linux Wireless List <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] firmware: fix __getname() missing failure check

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 01:31:58PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez
> <mcgrof@...not-panic.com> wrote:
> > +
> > +       path = __getname();
> > +       if (unlikely(!path))
> > +               return PTR_ERR(path);
> 
> This makes no sense.
> 
> PTR_ERR() on NULL is an insane operation. It's a very non-intuitive
> and misleading way of writing "0".
> 
> So not only is that "return 0;", that's not likely what you want _anyway_.
> 
> If you intended to return an error, you should just have done so, eg
> 
>         if (unlikely(!path))
>                 return -ENOMEM;
> 
> which actually does something sane, and is more readable.

Will fix, thanks.

 Luis
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