[PATCH] bus: sunxi-rsb: Fix the return value of sunxi_rsb_device_create()

Samuel Holland samuel at sholland.org
Sat Apr 23 12:39:45 PDT 2022


On 4/21/22 9:35 AM, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> This code is really spurious.
> It always returns an ERR_PTR, even when err is known to be 0 and calls
> put_device() after a successful device_register() call.
> 
> It is likely that the return statement in the normal path is missing.
> Add 'return rdev;' to fix it.

Thanks for the patch. This definitely looks to be the case.

> Fixes: d787dcdb9c8f ("bus: sunxi-rsb: Add driver for Allwinner Reduced Serial Bus")
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet at wanadoo.fr>

Reviewed-by: Samuel Holland <samuel at sholland.org>
Tested-by: Samuel Holland <samuel at sholland.org>



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