[PATCH] s5p-mfc: Don't try to put pm->clock if lookup failed

Javier Martinez Canillas javier at osg.samsung.com
Mon May 2 12:12:48 PDT 2016


Hello Arnd,

Thanks for your feedback.

On 05/02/2016 02:41 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 02 May 2016 13:27:54 Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> Failing to get the struct s5p_mfc_pm .clock is a non-fatal error so the
>> clock field can have a errno pointer value. But s5p_mfc_final_pm() only
>> checks if .clock is not NULL before attempting to unprepare and put it.
>>
>> This leads to the following warning in clk_put() due s5p_mfc_final_pm():
>>
> 
> Better assign the pointer to NULL in case of a non-fatal error
> return code. That way, the reader doesn't have to wonder why you
> have the IS_ERR_OR_NULL() check here.
>

Ok, I'll re-spin the patch doing that instead.
 
> 	Arnd
> 

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America



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