linux-kernel - [PATCH -next v2] coresight: trbe: Fix return value check in arm_trbe_register_coresight

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Date:   Fri, 9 Apr 2021 09:49:01 +0000
From:   Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@...wei.com>
To:     <weiyongjun1@...wei.com>,
        Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
CC:     <coresight@...ts.linaro.org>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
        Hulk Robot <hulkci@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH -next v2] coresight: trbe: Fix return value check in arm_trbe_register_coresight_cpu()

In case of error, the function devm_kasprintf() returns NULL
pointer not ERR_PTR(). The IS_ERR() test in the return value
check should be replaced with NULL test.

Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@...wei.com>
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@...wei.com>
---
v1 -> v2: remove fixes tag.
---
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
index 5ce239875c98..176868496879 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
@@ -871,7 +871,7 @@ static void arm_trbe_register_coresight_cpu(struct trbe_drvdata *drvdata, int cp
 
 	dev = &cpudata->drvdata->pdev->dev;
 	desc.name = devm_kasprintf(dev, GFP_KERNEL, "trbe%d", cpu);
-	if (IS_ERR(desc.name))
+	if (!desc.name)
 		goto cpu_clear;
 
 	desc.type = CORESIGHT_DEV_TYPE_SINK;