linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next][V2] dmaengine: ti: omap-dma: don't allow a null od->plat pointer to be dereferenced

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Date:   Fri, 10 Jan 2020 09:21:48 +0000
From:   Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>
Cc:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@...com>,
        Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next][V2] dmaengine: ti: omap-dma: don't allow a null
 od->plat pointer to be dereferenced

On 10/01/2020 07:46, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On 09-01-20, 13:19, Colin King wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>>
>> Currently when the call to dev_get_platdata returns null the driver issues
>> a warning and then later dereferences the null pointer.  Avoid this issue
>> by returning -ENODEV errror rather when the platform data is null and
> 
> s/errror/error :) never thought would correct Colin on spelling :)

Doh, I need to add that to the checkpatch dictionary ;-)

If this can be fixed up before it's applied then this would be
appreciated rather than me sending a V3.

> 
> With the typo fixes:
> 
> Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>
>