linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2 v3] misc: atmel-ssc: Fix platform_get

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Message-ID: <20171119083932.7qm2dnqqsgrzbim7@piout.net>
Date:   Sun, 19 Nov 2017 09:39:32 +0100
From:   Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>
To:     Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>
Cc:     arnd@...db.de, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, joel@....id.au,
        nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com, linux@...linux.org.uk,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v3] misc: atmel-ssc: Fix platform_get_irq's error
 checking

On 19/11/2017 at 10:04:01 +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> The platform_get_irq() function returns negative if an error occurs.
> zero or positive number on success. platform_get_irq() error checking
> for zero is not correct.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>
> ---
> changes in v2 :
>               Add failure case '<= 0' instead of '< 0'. IRQ 0 is not valid.
> changes in v3:
>               Return -ENODEV instead of ssc->irq.

The patch is not doing what you claim here.


> 
>  drivers/misc/atmel-ssc.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/atmel-ssc.c b/drivers/misc/atmel-ssc.c
> index b2a0340..2ec0f9e 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/atmel-ssc.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/atmel-ssc.c
> @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ static int ssc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	clk_disable_unprepare(ssc->clk);
>  
>  	ssc->irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
> -	if (!ssc->irq) {
> +	if (ssc->irq <= 0) {
>  		dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "could not get irq\n");
>  		return -ENXIO;
>  	}
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 

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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com