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Message-ID: <20160211065057.GA17047@tarshish>
Date:	Thu, 11 Feb 2016 08:50:57 +0200
From:	Baruch Siach <baruch@...s.co.il>
To:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty/serial: digicolor: Fix bad usage of IS_ERR_VALUE

Hi Guenter,

On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 07:08:59AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> IS_ERR_VALUE() assumes that its parameter is an unsigned long.
> It can not be used to check if an unsigned int reflects an error.
> Doing so can result in the following build warning.
> 
> drivers/tty/serial/digicolor-usart.c: In function ‘digicolor_uart_probe’:
> include/linux/err.h:21:38: warning:
> 	comparison is always false due to limited range of data type
> drivers/tty/serial/digicolor-usart.c:485:6: note:
> 	in expansion of macro ‘IS_ERR_VALUE’
> 
> If that warning is seen, an error return from platform_get_irq() is missed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>

Acked-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@...s.co.il>

Thanks,
baruch

> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/digicolor-usart.c | 9 +++++----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/digicolor-usart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/digicolor-usart.c
> index a80cdad114f3..02ad6953b167 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/digicolor-usart.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/digicolor-usart.c
> @@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ static struct uart_driver digicolor_uart = {
>  static int digicolor_uart_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>  	struct device_node *np = pdev->dev.of_node;
> -	int ret, index;
> +	int irq, ret, index;
>  	struct digicolor_port *dp;
>  	struct resource *res;
>  	struct clk *uart_clk;
> @@ -481,9 +481,10 @@ static int digicolor_uart_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	if (IS_ERR(dp->port.membase))
>  		return PTR_ERR(dp->port.membase);
>  
> -	dp->port.irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
> -	if (IS_ERR_VALUE(dp->port.irq))
> -		return dp->port.irq;
> +	irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
> +	if (irq < 0)
> +		return irq;
> +	dp->port.irq = irq;
>  
>  	dp->port.iotype = UPIO_MEM;
>  	dp->port.uartclk = clk_get_rate(uart_clk);

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