From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
To: Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>,
Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Cc: linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Xuefeng Li <lixuefeng@loongson.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] clk: hisilicon: Use correct return value about hisi_reset_init()
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 21:31:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <159072670557.69627.15526584762592289463@swboyd.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0936ce03-935d-d863-0bd1-a005ba1d40e0@loongson.cn>
Quoting Tiezhu Yang (2020-05-28 21:02:05)
> On 05/29/2020 11:58 AM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Quoting Tiezhu Yang (2020-05-28 19:03:54)
> >> On 05/29/2020 07:15 AM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> >>> Quoting Tiezhu Yang (2020-05-27 19:27:42)
> >>>> On 05/28/2020 03:06 AM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> >>>>> Quoting Tiezhu Yang (2020-05-27 07:39:21)
> >>>>>> The return value about hisi_reset_init() is not correct, fix it.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Fixes: e9a2310fb689 ("reset: hisilicon: fix potential NULL pointer dereference")
> >>>>> hisi_reset_init() returns NULL on error in that commit. This patch
> >>>>> doesn't make sense.
> >>>> Hi Stephen,
> >>>>
> >>>> The initial aim of this patch is to use correct return value about
> >>>> hisi_reset_init(), maybe NULL is OK, but the return value in this
> >>>> patch is more accurate.
> >>> The implementation of hisi_reset_init() that I see is this:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> struct hisi_reset_controller *rstc;
> >>>
> >>> rstc = devm_kmalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*rstc), GFP_KERNEL);
> >>> if (!rstc)
> >>> return NULL;
> >>>
> >>> rstc->membase = devm_platform_ioremap_resource(pdev, 0);
> >>> if (IS_ERR(rstc->membase))
> >>> return NULL;
> >>>
> >>> spin_lock_init(&rstc->lock);
> >>> rstc->rcdev.owner = THIS_MODULE;
> >>> rstc->rcdev.ops = &hisi_reset_ops;
> >>> rstc->rcdev.of_node = pdev->dev.of_node;
> >>> rstc->rcdev.of_reset_n_cells = 2;
> >>> rstc->rcdev.of_xlate = hisi_reset_of_xlate;
> >>> reset_controller_register(&rstc->rcdev);
> >>>
> >>> return rstc;
> >>>
> >>> And that returns NULL on an error and a valid pointer on success.
> >>> Changing the code to check the return value of hisi_reset_init() for an
> >>> error pointer is simply wrong without updating hisi_reset_init() to
> >>> return an error pointer on error. Where is the patch that changes
> >>> hisi_reset_init() to return an error pointer?
> >> Hi Stephen,
> >>
> >> Do you mean the following changes?
> > Yes where is this change?
>
> ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) and ERR_CAST(rstc->membase)
>
I think you didn't understand my question. I'm asking where is this
patch applied to the kernel and what commit is it? I don't see it in the
clk tree.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-29 4:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-27 14:39 [PATCH v4 1/2] clk: hisilicon: Use correct return value about hisi_reset_init() Tiezhu Yang
2020-05-27 14:39 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] clk: Allow COMPILE_TEST for subdir hisilicon in Makefile Tiezhu Yang
2020-05-31 21:05 ` kbuild test robot
2020-06-02 1:43 ` Tiezhu Yang
2020-05-27 19:06 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] clk: hisilicon: Use correct return value about hisi_reset_init() Stephen Boyd
2020-05-28 2:27 ` Tiezhu Yang
2020-05-28 23:15 ` Stephen Boyd
2020-05-29 2:03 ` Tiezhu Yang
2020-05-29 3:58 ` Stephen Boyd
2020-05-29 4:02 ` Tiezhu Yang
2020-05-29 4:31 ` Stephen Boyd [this message]
2020-05-29 6:44 ` Tiezhu Yang
2020-05-29 9:36 ` Stephen Boyd
2020-05-29 10:20 ` Tiezhu Yang
2020-05-29 21:14 ` Stephen Boyd
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