[PATCH] drm/rockchip: return ERR_PTR instead of NULL

[walter harms]

Am 11.11.2016 02:45, schrieb Mark yao:
> On 2016年11月11日 05:10, Julia Lawall wrote:
>> rockchip_drm_framebuffer_init is only used in one case, in
>> rockchip_drm_fbdev.c, where its return value is tested using IS_ERR.  To
>> enable propagating the reason for the error, change the definition so
>> that
>> it returns an ERR_PTR value.
>>
>> Problem found with the help of Coccinelle.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall at lip6.fr>
> Thanks for the fix.
> 
> Applied to my drm-next.

Just for my curiosity.

can more go wrong that OOM ?

i did not see that.

re,
 wh


> 
>>
>> ---
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_fb.c |    2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_fb.c
>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_fb.c
>> index 0f6eda0..01e11bf 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_fb.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_fb.c
>> @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ struct drm_framebuffer *
>>         rockchip_fb = rockchip_fb_alloc(dev, mode_cmd, &obj, 1);
>>       if (IS_ERR(rockchip_fb))
>> -        return NULL;
>> +        return ERR_CAST(rockchip_fb);
>>         return &rockchip_fb->fb;
>>   }
>>
>>
>>
>>
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