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* Re: [PATCH] iio: sca3000: Remove an erroneous get_device() call in sca3000_read_data()
@ 2020-05-06 15:30 Markus Elfring
  2020-05-10  9:55 ` Jonathan Cameron
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Markus Elfring @ 2020-05-06 15:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christophe Jaillet, linux-iio
  Cc: kernel-janitors, linux-kernel, Dan Carpenter, Greg Kroah-Hartman,
	Hartmut Knaack, Jonathan Cameron, Lars-Peter Clausen,
	Peter Meerwald-Stadler, Thomas Gleixner

> This looks really unusual to have a 'get_device()' hidden in a 'dev_err()' call.

Is there a need to prevent similar function calls by the means of
advanced source code analysis?

Regards,
Markus

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* Re: [PATCH] iio: sca3000: Remove an erroneous get_device() call in sca3000_read_data()
  2020-05-06 15:30 [PATCH] iio: sca3000: Remove an erroneous get_device() call in sca3000_read_data() Markus Elfring
@ 2020-05-10  9:55 ` Jonathan Cameron
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jonathan Cameron @ 2020-05-10  9:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Markus Elfring
  Cc: Christophe Jaillet, linux-iio, kernel-janitors, linux-kernel,
	Dan Carpenter, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Hartmut Knaack,
	Lars-Peter Clausen, Peter Meerwald-Stadler, Thomas Gleixner

On Wed, 6 May 2020 17:30:06 +0200
Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> wrote:

> > This looks really unusual to have a 'get_device()' hidden in a 'dev_err()' call.  
> 
> Is there a need to prevent similar function calls by the means of
> advanced source code analysis?

It's a seriously stupid bug so I'd have thought unlikely to
occur often enough to be worth it.

Jonathan

> 
> Regards,
> Markus


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