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Message-ID: <153255129875.48062.4075642035553635128@swboyd.mtv.corp.google.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 13:41:38 -0700
From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
To: Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers: clk: st: warn on iomap failure
Quoting Nicholas Mc Guire (2018-07-15 03:18:23)
> While the return value of clkgen_get_register_base() is being checked
> at the call site, there is no indication of failure cause thus making
> diagnosis of the issues hard. The WARN_ON() allows to determine the
> cause of failure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
> ---
>
> Problem found by an experimental coccinelle script
>
> Patch was compile tested with: multi_v7_defconfig (implies
> CONFIG_ARCH_STI=y)
>
> Patch is against 4.18-rc4 (localversion-next is next-20180713)
>
> drivers/clk/st/clkgen-pll.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/st/clkgen-pll.c b/drivers/clk/st/clkgen-pll.c
> index cbb5184..aeb30ab 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/st/clkgen-pll.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/st/clkgen-pll.c
> @@ -647,6 +647,7 @@ static void __iomem * __init clkgen_get_register_base(
> return NULL;
>
> reg = of_iomap(pnode, 0);
> + WARN_ON(!reg);
>
> of_node_put(pnode);
> return reg;
Shouldn't the caller blow up on NULL pointer access? This patch doesn't
seem useful, sorry.
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