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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdVwpWLvnAWhHqPUL1Cg7dq3rX8wzptHrWC954T0sh9bEw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2025 11:38:05 +0200
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
Cc: Markus Stockhausen <markus.stockhausen@....de>, Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>, 
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH next] mtd: nand: realtek-ecc: Fix a IS_ERR() vs NULL bug
 in probe

On Fri, 3 Oct 2025 at 11:30, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org> wrote:
> The dma_alloc_noncoherent() function doesn't return error pointers, it
> returns NULL on error.  Fix the error checking to match.
>
> Fixes: 3148d0e5b1c5 ("mtd: nand: realtek-ecc: Add Realtek external ECC engine support")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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