Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] clk: hisilicon: Use correct return value about hisi_reset_init()

[Stephen Boyd]

Quoting Tiezhu Yang (2020-05-27 19:27:42)
> On 05/28/2020 03:06 AM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Quoting Tiezhu Yang (2020-05-27 07:39:21)
> >> The return value about hisi_reset_init() is not correct, fix it.
> >>
> >> Fixes: e9a2310fb689 ("reset: hisilicon: fix potential NULL pointer 
> >> dereference")
> > hisi_reset_init() returns NULL on error in that commit. This patch
> > doesn't make sense.
> 
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> The initial aim of this patch is to use correct return value about
> hisi_reset_init(), maybe NULL is OK, but the return value in this
> patch is more accurate.

The implementation of hisi_reset_init() that I see is this:


        struct hisi_reset_controller *rstc;

        rstc = devm_kmalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*rstc), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!rstc)
                return NULL;

        rstc->membase = devm_platform_ioremap_resource(pdev, 0);
        if (IS_ERR(rstc->membase))
                return NULL;

        spin_lock_init(&rstc->lock);
        rstc->rcdev.owner = THIS_MODULE;
        rstc->rcdev.ops = &hisi_reset_ops;
        rstc->rcdev.of_node = pdev->dev.of_node;
        rstc->rcdev.of_reset_n_cells = 2;
        rstc->rcdev.of_xlate = hisi_reset_of_xlate;
        reset_controller_register(&rstc->rcdev);

        return rstc;

And that returns NULL on an error and a valid pointer on success.
Changing the code to check the return value of hisi_reset_init() for an
error pointer is simply wrong without updating hisi_reset_init() to
return an error pointer on error. Where is the patch that changes
hisi_reset_init() to return an error pointer?