From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, broonie@kernel.org,
Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
"open list:VOLTAGE AND CURRENT REGULATOR FRAMEWORK"
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: core: Use IS_ERR_OR_NULL()
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 21:22:57 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150820155257.GB4159@linux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1600359.hvYhnkmyof@wuerfel>
On 20-08-15, 15:26, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The use of IS_ERR_OR_NULL is almost always a bug (as is the open-coded
> equivalent).
> Please try to find out why this is done here and add a comment
> if it's actually correct, or fix it if not.
>
> My guess is that it is not ok to pass an error pointer as the argument
> of _regulator_put(), so maybe there should be WARN_ON()?
I agree, but updating that would require a revisit of all the API
users, in case they are passing a possible error value to it.
I am fine at attempting to fix that, but would need an Ack from Mark
first.
--
viresh
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-20 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-17 7:00 [PATCH] regulator: core: Use IS_ERR_OR_NULL() Viresh Kumar
2015-08-17 20:06 ` Mark Brown
2015-08-18 2:30 ` Viresh Kumar
2015-08-20 13:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-08-20 15:52 ` Viresh Kumar [this message]
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