linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PM: opp: Fix NULL pointer exception on a v2 table combined with v1 opps

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Date:   Mon, 4 Apr 2022 12:01:08 +0530
From:   Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
Cc:     Viresh Kumar <vireshk@...nel.org>, Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PM: opp: Fix NULL pointer exception on a v2 table
 combined with v1 opps

On 04-04-22, 08:28, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> I understand this is not a proper use case, but it is easy to trigger
> (UFS driver adds opps manually, DTS also adds one). Maybe you prefer to
> handle it differently - exit with ERRNO? Because NULL pointer exception
> in case of proper, but unexpected DTB is not a good way to handle it.

Yeah, sure. I agree that we can return a proper error in that case.
Will look forward to that patch :)

-- 
viresh