linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 next] media: i2c: fix error handling in ub960_rxport_add

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Message-ID: <20230718140659.4009167-1-harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com>
Date:   Tue, 18 Jul 2023 07:06:58 -0700
From:   Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@...cle.com>
To:     Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...asonboard.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     dan.carpenter@...aro.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        error27@...il.com, harshit.m.mogalapalli@...cle.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 next] media: i2c: fix error handling in ub960_rxport_add_serializer()

Smatch warns:
 drivers/media/i2c/ds90ub960.c:1671 ub960_rxport_add_serializer():
 err: 'rxport->ser.client' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()

i2c_new_client_device() returns error pointers on failure and in
dev_dbg statement we are dereferencing error pointer which is a bug.

Fix this by using IS_ERR() which checks for error pointers.

Fixes: afe267f2d368 ("media: i2c: add DS90UB960 driver")
Signed-off-by: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@...cle.com>
---
This is based on static analysis and only compile tested.

V1->V2: Suggestion from Tomi Valkeinen: Propogate the error code with
PTR_ERR() instead of -EIO.
---
 drivers/media/i2c/ds90ub960.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/ds90ub960.c b/drivers/media/i2c/ds90ub960.c
index e101bcf2356a..92aa004a3674 100644
--- a/drivers/media/i2c/ds90ub960.c
+++ b/drivers/media/i2c/ds90ub960.c
@@ -1662,10 +1662,10 @@ static int ub960_rxport_add_serializer(struct ub960_data *priv, u8 nport)
 	ser_info.addr = rxport->ser.alias;
 	rxport->ser.client =
 		i2c_new_client_device(priv->client->adapter, &ser_info);
-	if (!rxport->ser.client) {
+	if (IS_ERR(rxport->ser.client)) {
 		dev_err(dev, "rx%u: cannot add %s i2c device", nport,
 			ser_info.type);
-		return -EIO;
+		return PTR_ERR(rxport->ser.client);
 	}
 
 	dev_dbg(dev, "rx%u: remote serializer at alias 0x%02x (%u-%04x)\n",
-- 
2.39.3