Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] clk: hisilicon: Use correct return value about hisi_reset_init()

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Fri May 29 2020 - 05:36:09 EST


Quoting Tiezhu Yang (2020-05-28 23:44:20)
> On 05/29/2020 12:31 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Quoting Tiezhu Yang (2020-05-28 21:02:05)
> > I think you didn't understand my question. I'm asking where is this
> > patch applied to the kernel and what commit is it? I don't see it in the
> > clk tree.
>
> Sorry for that, actually I do not quite understand what you mean.
>
> In my opinion, after the following commit, when devm_ioremap_resource()
> is called in hisi_reset_init(), hisi_reset_init() still returns NULL and
> it only returns
> -ENOMEM when call hisi_reset_init() failed, I think it may returns
> -EINVAL, -EBUSY
> or -ENOMEM if failed, this is what I want to fix.
>
> "reset: hisilicon: fix potential NULL pointer dereference"
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clk/linux.git/commit/drivers/clk/hisilicon/reset.c?h=clk-next&id=e9a2310fb689151166df7fd9971093362d34bd79
>

This commit doesn't change the value that is returned by
hisi_reset_init() on an error. It still returns NULL when an error
happens.