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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
To: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] ptp: Fix pass zero to ERR_PTR() in ptp_clock_register
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 08:37:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181123163714.rxp766mx63bnx4tb@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181123015455.24228-1-yuehaibing@huawei.com>

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 09:54:55AM +0800, YueHaibing wrote:
> @@ -264,6 +266,7 @@ struct ptp_clock *ptp_clock_register(struct ptp_clock_info *info,
>  		pps.owner = info->owner;
>  		ptp->pps_source = pps_register_source(&pps, PTP_PPS_DEFAULTS);
>  		if (!ptp->pps_source) {
> +			err = -EINVAL;

Bonus points:  The function, pps_register_source(), keeps error codes
in a local variable, but it does not make use of the code.  There are
only five callers of that function, and so it would be nice to let
pps_register_source() return the error code.

For the present patch:

Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-23 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-23  1:54 [PATCH v2 net-next] ptp: Fix pass zero to ERR_PTR() in ptp_clock_register YueHaibing
2018-11-23 16:37 ` Richard Cochran [this message]
2018-11-26 10:20   ` YueHaibing
2018-11-24  2:04 ` David Miller

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