Re: [PATCH -next] hwmon: (scmi) return -EINVAL when sensor information is unavailable

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Thu Mar 15 2018 - 17:27:31 EST


On 03/15/2018 11:08 AM, Sudeep Holla wrote:
Passing NULL pointer to PTR_ERR will result in return value of 0
indicating success which is clearly not what it is intended here.

This patch returns -EINVAL instead when the sensor information is not
available.

Fixes: b23688aefb8b ("hwmon: add support for sensors exported via ARM SCMI")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-hwmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/hwmon/scmi-hwmon.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Hi Guenter,

I will try to push this via ARM-SoC if possible before v4.17 merge window.
So please provide Ack if you are fine.

Regards,
Sudeep

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/scmi-hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/scmi-hwmon.c
index 32e750373ced..363bf56eb0f2 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/scmi-hwmon.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/scmi-hwmon.c
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ static int scmi_hwmon_probe(struct scmi_device *sdev)
for (i = 0; i < nr_sensors; i++) {
sensor = handle->sensor_ops->info_get(handle, i);
if (!sensor)
- return PTR_ERR(sensor);
+ return -EINVAL;
switch (sensor->type) {
case TEMPERATURE_C: