[PATCH v8 3/4] can: m_can: Return ERR_PTR on error in allocation

From: Markus Schneider-Pargmann
Date: Tue Aug 12 2025 - 05:14:10 EST


We have more detailed error values available, return them in the core
driver and the calling drivers to return proper errors to callers.

Reviewed-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Markus Schneider-Pargmann <msp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c | 6 +++---
drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can_pci.c | 4 ++--
drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can_platform.c | 4 ++--
drivers/net/can/m_can/tcan4x5x-core.c | 4 ++--
4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c b/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c
index c68c95cc97075ddf72dbd2f177a999a09b8a21ca..e08fae5ddf5efa8345670dd50d50954ec5d52b29 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c
@@ -2392,7 +2392,7 @@ struct m_can_classdev *m_can_class_allocate_dev(struct device *dev,
sizeof(mram_config_vals) / 4);
if (ret) {
dev_err(dev, "Could not get Message RAM configuration.");
- goto out;
+ return ERR_PTR(ret);
}

if (dev->of_node && of_property_read_bool(dev->of_node, "wakeup-source"))
@@ -2407,7 +2407,7 @@ struct m_can_classdev *m_can_class_allocate_dev(struct device *dev,
net_dev = alloc_candev(sizeof_priv, tx_fifo_size);
if (!net_dev) {
dev_err(dev, "Failed to allocate CAN device");
- goto out;
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
}

class_dev = netdev_priv(net_dev);
@@ -2417,7 +2417,7 @@ struct m_can_classdev *m_can_class_allocate_dev(struct device *dev,

m_can_of_parse_mram(class_dev, mram_config_vals);
spin_lock_init(&class_dev->tx_handling_spinlock);
-out:
+
return class_dev;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(m_can_class_allocate_dev);
diff --git a/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can_pci.c b/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can_pci.c
index 9ad7419f88f83016e93667f4847fe536eca39ad1..eb31ed1f964491ab41c7811be317706a09951390 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can_pci.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can_pci.c
@@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ static int m_can_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pci, const struct pci_device_id *id)

mcan_class = m_can_class_allocate_dev(&pci->dev,
sizeof(struct m_can_pci_priv));
- if (!mcan_class)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ if (IS_ERR(mcan_class))
+ return PTR_ERR(mcan_class);

priv = cdev_to_priv(mcan_class);

diff --git a/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can_platform.c b/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can_platform.c
index b832566efda042929486578fad1879c7ad4a0cff..40bd10f71f0e2fab847c40c5bd5f7d85d3d46712 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can_platform.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can_platform.c
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ static int m_can_plat_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)

mcan_class = m_can_class_allocate_dev(&pdev->dev,
sizeof(struct m_can_plat_priv));
- if (!mcan_class)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ if (IS_ERR(mcan_class))
+ return PTR_ERR(mcan_class);

priv = cdev_to_priv(mcan_class);

diff --git a/drivers/net/can/m_can/tcan4x5x-core.c b/drivers/net/can/m_can/tcan4x5x-core.c
index 39b0b5277b11f5cf86137528e7ebea93a6d29c80..31cc9d0abd45360de8700d0a0270af8d3e42967d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/m_can/tcan4x5x-core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/m_can/tcan4x5x-core.c
@@ -416,8 +416,8 @@ static int tcan4x5x_can_probe(struct spi_device *spi)

mcan_class = m_can_class_allocate_dev(&spi->dev,
sizeof(struct tcan4x5x_priv));
- if (!mcan_class)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ if (IS_ERR(mcan_class))
+ return PTR_ERR(mcan_class);

ret = m_can_check_mram_cfg(mcan_class, TCAN4X5X_MRAM_SIZE);
if (ret)

--
2.50.1