Re: [PATCH v3 03/10] cxl/pci: Fix NULL vs ERR_PTR confusion

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Sat, 9 Oct 2021 09:44:13 -0700
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> cxl_pci_map_regblock() may return an ERR_PTR(), but cxl_pci_setup_regs()
> is only prepared for NULL as the error case.
> 

What's the logic behind doing this rather than adjusting the call site to
check for an error pointer?

Either approach is fine as far as I'm concerned though so this is really
just a request for a bit more info in this patch description.

FWIW

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>

> Fixes: f8a7e8c29be8 ("cxl/pci: Reserve all device regions at once")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/cxl/pci.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cxl/pci.c b/drivers/cxl/pci.c
> index ccc7c2573ddc..9c178002d49e 100644
> --- a/drivers/cxl/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/cxl/pci.c
> @@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ static void __iomem *cxl_pci_map_regblock(struct cxl_mem *cxlm,
>  	if (pci_resource_len(pdev, bar) < offset) {
>  		dev_err(dev, "BAR%d: %pr: too small (offset: %#llx)\n", bar,
>  			&pdev->resource[bar], (unsigned long long)offset);
> -		return IOMEM_ERR_PTR(-ENXIO);
> +		return NULL;
>  	}
>  
>  	addr = pci_iomap(pdev, bar, 0);
>