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From: walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: "David Airlie" <airlied@linux.ie>,
	"Alex Deucher" <alexander.deucher@amd.com>,
	"Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>,
	"Jammy Zhou" <Jammy.Zhou@amd.com>, yanyang1 <young.yang@amd.com>,
	"Marek Olšák" <marek.olsak@amd.com>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] drm/amdgpu: potential NULL dereference on error
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 12:03:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55797906.2090501@bfs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150611084933.GA27393@mwanda>



Am 11.06.2015 10:49, schrieb Dan Carpenter:
> debugfs_create_file() can return an error pointer if debugfs is disabled
> or it can return NULL on error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
> index 36be03c..adba2a1 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
> @@ -1980,6 +1980,8 @@ static int amdgpu_debugfs_regs_init(struct amdgpu_device *adev)
>  				  adev, &amdgpu_debugfs_regs_fops);
>  	if (IS_ERR(ent))
>  		return PTR_ERR(ent);
> +	if (!ent)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
>  	i_size_write(ent->d_inode, adev->rmmio_size);
>  	adev->debugfs_regs = ent;



would  PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO() by an option ?

on the other hand,
why does debugfs_create_file() does not return -ENOMEN instead of NULL ?


re,
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-11 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-11  8:49 [patch] drm/amdgpu: potential NULL dereference on error Dan Carpenter
2015-06-11 12:03 ` walter harms [this message]
2015-06-11 12:20   ` Dan Carpenter
2015-06-11 14:35     ` walter harms
2015-06-11 14:51       ` Dan Carpenter

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