] [PATCH net-next] net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: add missing check for rhashtable_init

Hariprasad Kelam hkelam at marvell.com
Thu May 16 02:56:25 PDT 2024



> Add check for the return value of rhashtable_init() and return the error if it
> fails in order to catch the error.
> 
> Fixes: 33fc42de3327 ("net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: support creating mac
> address based offload entries")
> Signed-off-by: Chen Ni <nichen at iscas.ac.cn>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_ppe.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_ppe.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_ppe.c
> index 0acee405a749..f7e5e6e52cdf 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_ppe.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_ppe.c
> @@ -884,12 +884,15 @@ struct mtk_ppe *mtk_ppe_init(struct mtk_eth *eth,
> void __iomem *base, int index)
>  	struct mtk_ppe *ppe;
>  	u32 foe_flow_size;
>  	void *foe;
> +	int ret;
> 
>  	ppe = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*ppe), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!ppe)
>  		return NULL;
> 
> -	rhashtable_init(&ppe->l2_flows, &mtk_flow_l2_ht_params);
> +	ret = rhashtable_init(&ppe->l2_flows, &mtk_flow_l2_ht_params);
> +	if (ret)
> +		return NULL;

Instead of returning NULL, return actual error ERR_PTR(ret) and use IS_ERR_OR_NULL API to validate the error

Thanks,
Hariprasad k
> 
>  	/* need to allocate a separate device, since it PPE DMA access is
>  	 * not coherent.
> --
> 2.25.1
> 




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