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Message-ID: <20201107093647.3a143f67@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Sat, 7 Nov 2020 09:36:47 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
Cc:     Wang Qing <wangqing@...o.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
        Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@...utronix.de>,
        Samuel Zou <zou_wei@...wei.com>,
        Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@...com>,
        Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@...aro.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [V2] [PATCH] net/ethernet: update ret when ptp_clock is ERROR

On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 06:58:16 -0800 Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 11:38:38AM +0800, Wang Qing wrote:
> > We always have to update the value of ret, otherwise the error value
> >  may be the previous one. And ptp_clock_register() never return NULL
> >  when PTP_1588_CLOCK enable, so we use IS_ERR here.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Wang Qing <wangqing@...o.com>

Wang Qing please send a v3. Please add an appropriate Fixes tag, since
this is a fix, and put [PATCH net] in the subject instead of just
[PATCH] to clarify that you expect the patch to be applied to the
net tree.

> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/am65-cpts.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/am65-cpts.c
> > index 75056c1..ec8e56d
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/am65-cpts.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/am65-cpts.c
> > @@ -998,11 +998,10 @@ struct am65_cpts *am65_cpts_create(struct device *dev, void __iomem *regs,
> >  	am65_cpts_settime(cpts, ktime_to_ns(ktime_get_real()));
> >  
> >  	cpts->ptp_clock = ptp_clock_register(&cpts->ptp_info, cpts->dev);
> > -	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(cpts->ptp_clock)) {  
> 
> This test was correct.
> 
> > +	if (IS_ERR(cpts->ptp_clock)) {  
> 
> This one is wrong.

Please fix this as Richard requests.

> >  		dev_err(dev, "Failed to register ptp clk %ld\n",
> >  			PTR_ERR(cpts->ptp_clock));
> > -		if (!cpts->ptp_clock)
> > -			ret = -ENODEV;
> > +		ret = PTR_ERR(cpts->ptp_clock);

But keep this part as is, because your code from v1 looks like it
wouldn't even build.

Thank you!

> >  		goto refclk_disable;
> >  	}
> >  	cpts->phc_index = ptp_clock_index(cpts->ptp_clock);
> > -- 
> > 2.7.4
> >