[RESEND PATCH 1/1] of: Make return types of to_of_node and of_fwnode_handle macros consistent
Laurent Pinchart
laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Thu Nov 2 10:37:15 PDT 2017
Hi Sakari,
Thank you for the patch.
On Thursday, 2 November 2017 11:59:18 EET Sakari Ailus wrote:
> (Fixed Mauro's e-mail.)
>
> to_of_node() macro checks whether the fwnode_handle passed to it is not an
> OF node, and if so, returns NULL in order to be NULL-safe. Otherwise it
> returns the pointer to the OF node which the fwnode_handle contains.
>
> The problem with returning NULL is that its type was void *, which
> sometimes matters. Explicitly return struct device_node * instead.
>
> Make a similar change to of_fwnode_handle() as well.
>
> Fixes: d20dc1493db4 ("of: Support const and non-const use for to_of_node()")
> Fixes: debd3a3b27c7 ("of: Make of_fwnode_handle() safer")
> Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus at linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
> ---
> Hi Mauro,
>
> Could you check whether this addresses the smatch issue with the xilinx
> driver?
>
> Thanks.
>
> include/linux/of.h | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/of.h b/include/linux/of.h
> index b240ed69dc96..0651231c115e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/of.h
> +++ b/include/linux/of.h
> @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ static inline bool is_of_node(const struct fwnode_handle
> *fwnode) is_of_node(__to_of_node_fwnode) ? \
> container_of(__to_of_node_fwnode, \
> struct device_node, fwnode) : \
> - NULL; \
> + (struct device_node *)NULL; \
> })
>
> #define of_fwnode_handle(node) \
> @@ -169,7 +169,8 @@ static inline bool is_of_node(const struct fwnode_handle
> *fwnode) typeof(node) __of_fwnode_handle_node = (node); \
> \
> __of_fwnode_handle_node ? \
> - &__of_fwnode_handle_node->fwnode : NULL; \
> + &__of_fwnode_handle_node->fwnode : \
> + (struct fwnode_handle *)NULL; \
> })
>
> static inline bool of_have_populated_dt(void)
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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