[PATCH] clk: fix return value check in clk_get

Peter De Schrijver pdeschrijver at nvidia.com
Fri Jul 20 09:43:49 EDT 2012


On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 03:36:37PM +0200, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
> of_clk_get_by_name returns an ERR_PTR on failure. Hence we should use IS_ERR()
> and not just check for a non NULL value.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver at nvidia.com>
> ---
>  drivers/clk/clkdev.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/clkdev.c b/drivers/clk/clkdev.c
> index 8f87b0f..d423c9b 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/clkdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/clkdev.c
> @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ struct clk *clk_get(struct device *dev, const char *con_id)
>  
>  	if (dev) {
>  		clk = of_clk_get_by_name(dev->of_node, con_id);
> -		if (clk && __clk_get(clk))
> +		if (!IS_ERR(clk) && __clk_get(clk))
>  			return clk;
>  	}

http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg184794.html introduces this
behaviour of of_clk_get_by_name()

Cheers,

Peter.



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