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Message-ID: <20151124074211.GB18880@sudip-pc>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 13:12:12 +0530
From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] thermal: ti-soc-thermal: fix error check
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 03:25:43PM -0800, Eduardo Valentin wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 06:24:41PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > We were only checking if data is not NULL but
> > ti_bandgap_get_sensor_data() can return NULL or ERR_PTR.
>
> Do you have a fail case? Can you please send the logs too?
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@...torindia.org>
> > ---
> > drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-thermal-common.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-thermal-common.c b/drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-thermal-common.c
> > index b213a12..d76bb7c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-thermal-common.c
> > +++ b/drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-thermal-common.c
> > @@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ int ti_thermal_remove_sensor(struct ti_bandgap *bgp, int id)
> >
> > data = ti_bandgap_get_sensor_data(bgp, id);
> >
> > - if (data && data->ti_thermal) {
> > + if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(data) && data->ti_thermal) {
>
> I don t really see the need for this as we always
> ti_bandgap_set_sensor_data with a valid pointer, never with a ERR PTR.
> So, it would be either valid or NULL.
ERR_PTR is not coming from ti_bandgap_set_sensor_data(). In
ti_bandgap_get_sensor_data() if ti_bandgap_validate() fails then it
returns ERR_PTR(ret). So just by checking for NULL we are not checking
for any error return from ti_bandgap_validate().
regards
sudip
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