linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/imx: parallel-display: check return value of devm_drm_bridge_add() in imx_pd

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Message-ID: <25f6072e-3d3e-4032-a87f-4fea5dbc4570@web.de>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 14:04:17 +0100
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Chen Ni <nichen@...as.ac.cn>, imx@...ts.linux.dev,
 dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, kernel@...gutronix.de,
 linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
 Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>, Frank Li <Frank.Li@....com>,
 Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@...tlin.com>,
 Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@...tlin.com>,
 Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
 Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>, Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>,
 Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>, Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>,
 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/imx: parallel-display: check return value of
 devm_drm_bridge_add() in imx_pd_probe()

> Return the value of devm_drm_bridge_add() in order to propagate the
> error properly, if it fails due to resource allocation failure or bridge
> registration failure.
…

* Were any source code analysis tools involved here?

* See also once more:
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst?h=v6.19-rc8#n34


Regards,
Markus