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From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
To: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: wg@grandegger.com, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org,
	angelo@kernel-space.org, linux-can@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] can: flexcan: Fix an uninitialized variable issue
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 13:31:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210729113101.n5aucrwu56lyqhg7@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a55780a2f4c8f1895b6bcbac4d3f8312b2731079.1627557857.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>

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On 29.07.2021 13:27:42, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> If both 'clk_ipg' and 'clk_per' are NULL, we return an un-init value.
> So set 'err' to 0, to return success in such a case.

Thanks for the patch, a similar one has been posted before:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/20210728075428.1493568-1-mkl@pengutronix.de/

> Fixes: d9cead75b1c6 ("can: flexcan: add mcf5441x support")
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
> ---
> Another way to fix it is to remove the NULL checks for 'clk_ipg' and
> 'clk_per' that been added in commit d9cead75b1c6.
> 
> They look useless to me because 'clk_prepare_enable()' returns 0 if it is
> passed a NULL pointer.

ACK, while the common clock framework's clk_prepare_enable() can handle
NULL pointers, the clock framework used on the mcf5441x doesn't.

> Having these explicit tests is maybe informational (i.e. these pointers
> can really be NULL) or have been added to silent a compiler or a static
> checker.
> 
> So, in case, I've left the tests and just fixed the un-init 'err' variable
> issue.

regards,
Marc

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-29 11:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-29 11:27 [PATCH] can: flexcan: Fix an uninitialized variable issue Christophe JAILLET
2021-07-29 11:31 ` Marc Kleine-Budde [this message]
2021-07-29 11:44   ` Dan Carpenter
2021-07-29 11:57     ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2021-07-29 12:28       ` Dan Carpenter

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