Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] wwan: core: Avoid returning error pointer from wwan_create_dev()

From: Sergey Ryazanov
Date: Fri Aug 06 2021 - 05:13:30 EST


Hello Andy,

On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 12:08 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 09:53:57PM +0200, Loic Poulain wrote:
>> On Thu, 5 Aug 2021 at 20:38, Andy Shevchenko
>> <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> wwan_create_dev() is expected to return either valid pointer or NULL,
>>> In some cases it might return the error pointer. Prevent this by converting
>>> it to NULL after wwan_dev_get_by_parent().
>>
>> wwan_create_dev is called both from wwan_register_ops() and
>> wwan_create_port(), one using IS_ERR and the other using NULL testing,
>> they should be aligned as well.
>
> Ah, good catch!
>
> I just sent v2, but eventually I have decided to switch to error pointer since
> it seems the most used pattern in the code.

I agree that returning the error pointer is a good solution here.
Thank you for the fix.

--
Sergey