[bug] regulator: fixed, gpio: probe fails on unset regulator-name

From: Harald Geyer
Date: Fri Mar 03 2017 - 16:21:55 EST


Hi!

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/regulator.txt says that the
regulator-name property is optional. However fixed and gpio regulators
fail in probe with the following message, if the property is not present:

| reg-fixed-voltage regulators:sensor_supply: Failed to allocate supply name
| reg-fixed-voltage: probe of regulators:sensor_supply failed with error -12

This is caused by the following code in both drivers:
drvdata->desc.name = devm_kstrdup(&pdev->dev,
config->supply_name,
GFP_KERNEL);
if (drvdata->desc.name == NULL) {
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to allocate supply name\n");
return -ENOMEM;
}

If config->supply_name == NULL, then devm_kstrdup() also returns NULL.

I don't know whether the binding document or the implementation is wrong,
so can't propose a fix for this. Sorry.

TIA,
Harald

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