[PATCH v3] CLK: TI: consider the fact that of_clk_get() might return an error

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy at linutronix.de
Thu Sep 18 07:33:27 PDT 2014


I "forgot" to update the dtb and the kernel crashed:
|Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000002e
|PC is at __clk_get_flags+0x4/0xc
|LR is at ti_dt_clockdomains_setup+0x70/0xe8

because I did not have the clock nodes. of_clk_get() returns an error
pointer which is not checked here.

Acked-by: Nishanth Menon <nm at ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy at linutronix.de>
---
 v2…v3:
    - added acked by
    - fixed "CHECK: Alignment should match open parenthesis"
    
 v1…v2:
     add "%s __func__" to the added pr_err

 drivers/clk/ti/clockdomain.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/clk/ti/clockdomain.c b/drivers/clk/ti/clockdomain.c
index f1e0038d76ac..b4c5faccaece 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/ti/clockdomain.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/ti/clockdomain.c
@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ static void __init of_ti_clockdomain_setup(struct device_node *node)
 
 	for (i = 0; i < num_clks; i++) {
 		clk = of_clk_get(node, i);
+		if (IS_ERR(clk)) {
+			pr_err("%s: Failed get %s' clock nr %d (%ld)\n",
+			       __func__, node->full_name, i, PTR_ERR(clk));
+			continue;
+		}
 		if (__clk_get_flags(clk) & CLK_IS_BASIC) {
 			pr_warn("can't setup clkdm for basic clk %s\n",
 				__clk_get_name(clk));
-- 
2.1.0



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