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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
To: Rakuram Eswaran <rakuram.e96@gmail.com>
Cc: ulf.hansson@linaro.org, zhoubinbin@loongson.cn,
	u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com, chenhuacai@kernel.org,
	david.hunter.linux@gmail.com, skhan@linuxfoundation.org,
	khalid@kernel.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linux.dev,
	kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmc: pxamci: Fix passing NULL to PTR_ERR() in pxamci_probe()
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 19:40:33 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aOVCgXnHDnErCLnu@stanley.mountain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251007161948.12442-1-rakuram.e96@gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 07, 2025 at 09:47:44PM +0530, Rakuram Eswaran wrote:
> Smatch reported:
> drivers/mmc/host/pxamci.c:709 pxamci_probe() warn: passing zero to 'PTR_ERR'
> 
> Case 1:
> When dma_request_chan() fails, host->dma_chan_rx is an ERR_PTR(),
> but it is reset to NULL before using PTR_ERR(), resulting in PTR_ERR(0).
> This mistakenly returns 0 instead of the real error code.
> 
> Case 2:
> When devm_clk_get() fails, host->clk is an ERR_PTR() resulting in the similar
> issue like case 1. 
> 
> Store the error code before nullifying the pointers in both the cases.
> 
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202510041841.pRlunIfl-lkp@intel.com/
> Fixes: 58c40f3faf742c ("mmc: pxamci: Use devm_mmc_alloc_host() helper")
> Signed-off-by: Rakuram Eswaran <rakuram.e96@gmail.com>
> ---

Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2025-10-07 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-07 16:17 [PATCH] mmc: pxamci: Fix passing NULL to PTR_ERR() in pxamci_probe() Rakuram Eswaran
2025-10-07 16:40 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2025-10-07 17:43 ` Khalid Aziz
2025-10-09  1:21 ` Binbin Zhou
2025-10-09  8:57 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2025-10-09 15:27   ` Rakuram Eswaran
2025-10-10  9:59     ` Uwe Kleine-König
2025-10-10 17:59       ` Khalid Aziz
2025-10-12 14:15         ` Uwe Kleine-König
2025-10-12 18:37           ` Rakuram Eswaran
2025-10-13  8:45             ` Uwe Kleine-König
2025-10-13 22:54               ` Khalid Aziz
2025-10-14 12:27                 ` Dan Carpenter
2025-10-14 13:31                   ` Khalid Aziz
2025-10-14 18:49                     ` Rakuram Eswaran
2025-10-09 15:53   ` Khalid Aziz

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