linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 5/7] usb: xhci: plat: Remove checks for optional clock in error/remove path

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Message-ID: <877ffjo6wr.fsf@intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:19:32 +0300
From:	Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...vell.com>, mathias.nyman@...ux.intel.com
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	yendapally.reddy@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 5/7] usb: xhci: plat: Remove checks for optional clock in error/remove path


Hi,

Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...vell.com> writes:
> Dear Felipe,
>
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 08:33:52 +0300 Felipe Balbi wrote:
>
>> Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...vell.com> writes:
>> > Commit 63589e92c2d9 ("clk: Ignore error and NULL pointers passed to
>> > clk_{unprepare, disable}()") allows NULL or error pointer to be passed
>> > unconditionally.
>> >
>> > This patch is to simplify probe error and remove code paths.  
>> 
>> this seems wrong to me. xhci->clk isn't initialized to NULL, it's either
>> initialized to a valid struct clk * or some ERR_PTR() value.
>
> Commit 63589e92c2d9 could also ignore error value ;)

oh okay, thanks for that. That's, IMHO, quite dangerous ;-)

-- 
balbi

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