On Wednesday 17 February 2016 07:29:05 Julia Lawall wrote:
PTR_ERR should access the value just tested by IS_ERR
Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/tests/odd_ptr_err.cocci
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <redacted>
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I haven't checked the context in detail. There can be false positives,
when it is the call to IS_ERR that is wrong.
tree: https://github.com/Broadcom/arm64-linux iproc-tsc-v2
head: ef32cf1baeb934bfcdf7c9eb8ad345aae266cde5
commit: c3afc7a1c330ce452c52e2183a23b2ab9f70bd4a [2/3] input: syscon
support in bcm_iproc_tsc driver
Please take the patch only if it's a positive warning. Thanks!
Looks correct to me
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
if (IS_ERR(priv->regmap)) {
- error = PTR_ERR(priv->regs);
+ error = PTR_ERR(priv->regmap);
I think this could have been avoided using
error = PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(priv->regmap);
if (error) {
...
Arnd