[PATCH net-next] net: ti: icssm-prueth: unwind cleanly in probe()

Simon Horman horms at kernel.org
Thu Sep 18 09:27:56 PDT 2025


On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 12:48:26PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This error handling triggers a Smatch warning:
> 
>     drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssm/icssm_prueth.c:1574 icssm_prueth_probe()
>     warn: 'prueth->pru1' is an error pointer or valid
> 
> The warning is harmless because the pru_rproc_put() function has an
> IS_ERR_OR_NULL() check built in.  However, there is a small bug if
> syscon_regmap_lookup_by_phandle() fails.  In that case we should call
> of_node_put() on eth0_node and eth1_node.
> 
> It's a little bit easier to re-write this code to only free things which
> we know have been allocated successfully.
> 
> Fixes: 511f6c1ae093 ("net: ti: icssm-prueth: Adds ICSSM Ethernet driver")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at linaro.org>

Thanks Dan.

I'm pretty sure I reviewed this code at some point.
Sorry for not noticing this problem then.

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>

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