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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] universal_c210: fix compiler error and compiler warning
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:44:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121210104448.52307200FDD@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121210103224.372c572e@amdc308.digital.local>

Dear Lukasz Majewski,

In message <20121210103224.372c572e@amdc308.digital.local> you wrote:
> 
> > This is unrelated to your patch - but what if pmic_get() returns NULL?
> > 
> > pmic_probe() will crashif you pass it a NULL pointer...
> 
> The PMIC 2.0 uses malloc to allocate pmic structure.

...and malloc() can fail.

> The fix, which has been proposed would work for old pmic.
> 
> In the new one PMIC 2.0, we require to test return pointer from
> pmic_get() (similar to all malloc allocations):
> 
> struct pmic *p = pmic_get("MAX8998_PMIC");
> if (!p)
> 	return -ENODEV;

So this code here needs fixing.  This is what I wanted to point out.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-12-10 10:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-10  6:50 [U-Boot] universal_c210: fix compiler error and compiler warning Minkyu Kang
2012-12-10  9:06 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-12-10  9:32   ` Lukasz Majewski
2012-12-10  9:59     ` Minkyu Kang
2012-12-10 10:44     ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2012-12-10 10:28 ` Piotr Wilczek
2012-12-11  4:01 ` Minkyu Kang

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