Re: [PATCH] iio: sca3000: Remove an erroneous 'get_device()'

From: Marion & Christophe JAILLET
Date: Wed May 06 2020 - 13:31:45 EST



Le 06/05/2020 Ã 12:38, Andy Shevchenko a ÃcritÂ:
On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 6:55 AM Christophe JAILLET
<christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This looks really unusual to have a 'get_device()' hidden in a 'dev_err()'
call.
Remove it.

While at it add a missing \n at the end of the message.

It should have Fixes tag because it is a quite an issue (get_device()
breaks reference counting with all problems we may expect).

Agreed and I usually do, but here, I've lost track when this driver has gone out of staging.

Based on:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/log/drivers/iio/accel/sca3000.c
The issue was already there on 2016/10/23, but when I try to go one step further:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/tree/drivers/staging/iio/accel/sca3000.c?id=2ccf61442ff142d2dde7c47471c2798a4d78b0ad
^^^^ ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ ^^^^^^^
works but if I try to see the log for that:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/log/drivers/staging/iio/accel/sca3000.c
^^^ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ ^^^^^^^
is empty.

Most of the time, when I do it like that it works just fine, but not on this file.

Any other way to navigate in history of moved file would be appreciated.

CJ


Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
This patch is purely speculative.
I've looked a bit arround and see no point for this get_device() but other
eyes are welcomed :)
---
drivers/iio/accel/sca3000.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/accel/sca3000.c b/drivers/iio/accel/sca3000.c
index 66d768d971e1..6e429072e44a 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/accel/sca3000.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/accel/sca3000.c
@@ -980,7 +980,7 @@ static int sca3000_read_data(struct sca3000_state *st,
st->tx[0] = SCA3000_READ_REG(reg_address_high);
ret = spi_sync_transfer(st->us, xfer, ARRAY_SIZE(xfer));
if (ret) {
- dev_err(get_device(&st->us->dev), "problem reading register");
+ dev_err(&st->us->dev, "problem reading register\n");
return ret;
}

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