[PATCH next] coresight: Fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() bug in probe

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Mon Jul 21 04:16:30 PDT 2025



On 17/07/25 1:08 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The devm_ioremap_resource() function returns error pointers on error.
> It never returns NULL.  Update the error checking to match.
> 
> Fixes: 26e20622a8ae ("coresight: add coresight Trace Network On Chip driver")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at linaro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tnoc.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tnoc.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tnoc.c
> index 0e4164707eea..d542df46ea39 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tnoc.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tnoc.c
> @@ -183,8 +183,8 @@ static int trace_noc_probe(struct amba_device *adev, const struct amba_id *id)
>  	dev_set_drvdata(dev, drvdata);
>  
>  	drvdata->base = devm_ioremap_resource(dev, &adev->res);
> -	if (!drvdata->base)
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> +	if (IS_ERR(drvdata->base))
> +		return PTR_ERR(drvdata->base);
>  
>  	spin_lock_init(&drvdata->spinlock);
>  

Do we still have more similar instances in coresight ?




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