[PATCHv2 02/16] iommu/omap: omap_iommu_attach() should return ENODEV, not NULL
Laurent Pinchart
laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Tue Feb 25 16:13:00 EST 2014
Hi Suman,
Thank you for the patch.
On Thursday 13 February 2014 12:15:33 Suman Anna wrote:
> From: Florian Vaussard <florian.vaussard at epfl.ch>
>
> omap_iommu_attach() returns NULL or ERR_PTR in case of error, but
> omap_iommu_attach_dev() only checks for IS_ERR. Thus a NULL return value (in
> case driver_find_device fails) will cause the kernel to panic when
> omap_iommu_attach_dev() dereferences the pointer.
>
> In such case, omap_iommu_attach() should return ENODEV, not NULL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Vaussard <florian.vaussard at epfl.ch>
> Acked-by: Suman Anna <s-anna at ti.com>
> ---
> drivers/iommu/omap-iommu.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/omap-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/omap-iommu.c
> index fff2ffd..6272c36 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/omap-iommu.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/omap-iommu.c
> @@ -863,7 +863,7 @@ static int device_match_by_alias(struct device *dev,
> void *data) **/
> static struct omap_iommu *omap_iommu_attach(const char *name, u32 *iopgd)
> {
> - int err = -ENOMEM;
> + int err = -ENODEV;
> struct device *dev;
> struct omap_iommu *obj;
>
> @@ -871,7 +871,7 @@ static struct omap_iommu *omap_iommu_attach(const char
> *name, u32 *iopgd) (void *)name,
> device_match_by_alias);
> if (!dev)
> - return NULL;
> + return ERR_PTR(err);
I would return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) here, and remove the initialization at
declaration of err above.
>
> obj = to_iommu(dev);
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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