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From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
To: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
Cc: Rafael Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Viresh Kumar <vireshk@kernel.org>, Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>,
	linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PM / OPP: Initialize regulator pointer to an error value
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 22:14:10 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160215164410.GE6334@vireshk-i7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56C1FFE6.1010806@nvidia.com>

On 15-02-16, 16:42, Jon Hunter wrote:
> 
> On 15/02/16 16:26, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > We are currently required to do two checks for regulator pointer:
> > IS_ERR() and IS_NULL().
> > 
> > And multiple instances are reported, about both of these not being used
> > consistently and so resulting in crashes.
> > 
> > Fix that by initializing regulator pointer with an error value and
> > checking it only against an error.
> > 
> > This makes code consistent and efficient.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
> 
> Tested-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>

Thanks a lot Jon.

-- 
viresh

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-15 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-11 11:25 [PATCH] PM / OPP: Fix NULL pointer dereference crash when disabling OPPs Jon Hunter
     [not found] ` <1455189959-27944-1-git-send-email-jonathanh-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-11 11:34   ` Viresh Kumar
2016-02-11 21:16     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-15 13:59   ` [PATCH] PM / OPP: Fix NULL pointer dereference crash when setting the OPP Jon Hunter
     [not found]     ` <1455544758-7718-1-git-send-email-jonathanh-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-15 16:25       ` Viresh Kumar
2016-02-15 16:26     ` [PATCH] PM / OPP: Initialize regulator pointer to an error value Viresh Kumar
2016-02-15 16:42       ` Jon Hunter
2016-02-15 16:44         ` Viresh Kumar [this message]
2016-02-15 20:38       ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-15 21:13         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-16  0:47           ` Viresh Kumar
2016-02-16  0:50             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-02-16  1:00         ` Viresh Kumar
2016-02-16  1:56           ` Mark Brown
2016-02-16  9:10             ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-16 13:11               ` Mark Brown
2016-02-16 15:12                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-16 16:51                   ` Mark Brown

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