On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 07:13:35PM -0700, Igor Mitsyanko wrote: > On 08/29/2017 05:16 AM, Sergey Matyukevich wrote: > > NULL is not a special type of success here but a error pointer. > > So it makes sense to check against NULL in qtnf_map_bar > > and return error code. > > > > Signed-off-by: Sergey Matyukevich <[email protected]> > > --- > > On a first glance not immediately obvious what is logically changed here, is > it so that pr_debug() would not print NULL pointer?
There is no actual bug here: all the mappings and error checks are in place. This is more about coding style problem: when function return both NULL and error pointeres, then the NULL is supposed to be a special type of success return. In this particular case NULL is just yet another failure.
