On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 21:30 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 8 Dec 2014, Yingjoe Chen wrote: > > > This fix an error handling bug reported by Beniamino, this is based on > > mtk intpol patches [1] > > > > Joe.C > > > > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-November/305808.html > > > > ==================== > > of_io_request_and_map() return ERR_PTR wrapped error code instead of > > NULL when fail, fix code in mtk_sysirq_of_init() to correctly handle > > this. > > > > Signed-off-by: Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.c...@mediatek.com> > > This is not a proper changelog. Let me write up a proper one: > > Subject: irqchip: mediatek: Use IS_ERR() instead of NULL pointer check > > Beniamino reported a kernel oops caused by an invalid DT file for the > mediatek interrupt polarity extension. > > The reason is that the interrupt polarity support for mediatek chips > merily checks for at NULL pointer instead of a casted error return > value in mtk_sysirq_of_init() so any other casted error value passes > the NULL pointer check and causes a kernel panic when dereferenced. > > Use IS_ERR() and return the error value via PTR_ERR(). > > Reported-and-tested-by: Beniamino Galvani <b.galv...@gmail.com> > Signed-off-by: Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.c...@mediatek.com> > > Can you see the difference? > > Thanks, > > tglx
Thanks for the review. This changelog describe issue and why we need this change more clearly. I'll prepare a new patch with this changelog, Thanks. Joe.C -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/