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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Ganesh Goudar <ganeshgr@chelsio.com>,
	Atul Gupta <atul.gupta@chelsio.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 net] cxgb4: ptp_clock_register() returns error pointers
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 11:56:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170710095645.sqyl2i5de3duxxtl@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170710071615.k6b6726cwushhdmm@mwanda>

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 10:16:15AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> We're checking ptp_clock_register() for NULL but we should be checking
> for error pointers.

No.

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_ptp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_ptp.c
> index 50517cfd9671..c24313a103c6 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_ptp.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_ptp.c
> @@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ void cxgb4_ptp_init(struct adapter *adapter)
>  
>  	adapter->ptp_clock = ptp_clock_register(&adapter->ptp_clock_info,
>  						&adapter->pdev->dev);
> -	if (!adapter->ptp_clock) {

Yeah, that is wrong, but the fix is to check to IS_ERR or NULL.

Thanks,
Richard

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-10  9:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-10  7:11 [PATCH 1/2 net] ptp: fix error codes in ptp_clock_register() Dan Carpenter
2017-07-10  7:16 ` [PATCH 2/2 net] cxgb4: ptp_clock_register() returns error pointers Dan Carpenter
2017-07-10  9:56   ` Richard Cochran [this message]
2017-07-10  9:21 ` [PATCH 1/2 net] ptp: fix error codes in ptp_clock_register() Richard Cochran
2017-07-10  9:38   ` Dan Carpenter
2017-07-10  9:48     ` Richard Cochran
2017-07-10 10:29       ` Dan Carpenter
2017-07-10 11:02         ` Richard Cochran
2017-07-10  9:34 ` Richard Cochran

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