[PATCH -next] iommu/exynos: Fix return value check in exynos_iommu_of_setup()

Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski at samsung.com
Mon Jul 18 00:34:11 PDT 2016


Hello,


On 2016-07-06 15:09, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 07/06/2016 02:15 PM, weiyj_lk at 163.com wrote:
>> From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei at trendmicro.com.cn>
>>
>> In case of error, the function of_platform_device_create() returns
>> NULL pointer not ERR_PTR(). The IS_ERR() test in the return value
>> check should be replaced with NULL test.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei at trendmicro.com.cn>
>> ---
>>   drivers/iommu/exynos-iommu.c | 4 ++--
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/exynos-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/exynos-iommu.c
>> index 33dcc29..9b23059 100644
>> --- a/drivers/iommu/exynos-iommu.c
>> +++ b/drivers/iommu/exynos-iommu.c
>> @@ -1345,8 +1345,8 @@ static int __init exynos_iommu_of_setup(struct device_node *np)
>>   		exynos_iommu_init();
>>   
>>   	pdev = of_platform_device_create(np, NULL, platform_bus_type.dev_root);
>> -	if (IS_ERR(pdev))
>> -		return PTR_ERR(pdev);
>> +	if (!pdev)
>> +		return -ENOMEM;
>>   
>>   	/*
>>   	 * use the first registered sysmmu device for performing
>>
> Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski at samsung.com>
>
>
> Which in case of first sysmmu device and of_platform_device_create()
> failure will lead to NULL pointer exception, so I think it is
> appropriate to:
> Fixes: 8ed55c812fa8 ("iommu/exynos: Init from dt-specific callback
> instead of initcall")
> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>

Thanks for spotting this issue.

Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland




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