Re: [PATCH] soc: imx8m: fix wrong return value check of of_clk_get_by_name()

From: Alexander Stein
Date: Wed Jan 04 2023 - 02:51:37 EST


Hi,

Am Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2023, 07:41:36 CET schrieb Yang Yingliang:
> of_clk_get_by_name() never returns NULL pointer, it will return
> ERR_PTR() when it fails, so replace the check with IS_ERR().
>
> Fixes: 836fb30949d9 ("soc: imx8m: Enable OCOTP clock before reading the
> register") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/soc/imx/soc-imx8m.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/soc/imx/soc-imx8m.c b/drivers/soc/imx/soc-imx8m.c
> index 28144c699b0c..32ed9dc88e45 100644
> --- a/drivers/soc/imx/soc-imx8m.c
> +++ b/drivers/soc/imx/soc-imx8m.c
> @@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ static u32 __init imx8mq_soc_revision(void)
> ocotp_base = of_iomap(np, 0);
> WARN_ON(!ocotp_base);
> clk = of_clk_get_by_name(np, NULL);
> - if (!clk) {
> - WARN_ON(!clk);
> + if (IS_ERR(clk)) {

Nice catch. But wouldn't
> if (WARN_ON(IS_ERR(clk)))
be even better instead of doing the check twice?

Best regards,
Alexander

> + WARN_ON(IS_ERR(clk));
> return 0;
> }