Re: [PATCH net] net: dsa: Properly propagate errors from dsa_switch_setup_one
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Date: 2015-05-29 18:33:27
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:29:46AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
While shuffling some code around, dsa_switch_setup_one() was introduced,
and it was modified to return either an error code using ERR_PTR() or a
NULL pointer when running out of memory or failing to setup a switch.
This is a problem for its caler: dsa_switch_setup() which uses IS_ERR()
and expects to find an error code, not a NULL pointer, so we still try
to proceed with dsa_switch_setup() and operate on invalid memory
addresses. This can be easily reproduced by having e.g: the bcm_sf2
driver built-in, but having no such switch, such that drv->setup will
fail.
Fix this by using PTR_ERR() consistently which is both more informative
and avoids for the caller to use IS_ERR_OR_NULL().
Fixes: df197195a5248 ("net: dsa: split dsa_switch_setup into two functions")
Reported-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>Hi Florian No more crash and burn :-) Tested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Thanks Andrew
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
--- net/dsa/dsa.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)diff --git a/net/dsa/dsa.c b/net/dsa/dsa.c index e6f6cc3a1bcf..392e29a0227d 100644 --- a/net/dsa/dsa.c +++ b/net/dsa/dsa.c@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ dsa_switch_setup(struct dsa_switch_tree *dst, int index, */ ds = kzalloc(sizeof(*ds) + drv->priv_size, GFP_KERNEL); if (ds == NULL) - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); ds->dst = dst; ds->index = index;@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ dsa_switch_setup(struct dsa_switch_tree *dst, int index, ret = dsa_switch_setup_one(ds, parent); if (ret) - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(ret); return ds; }-- 2.1.0