Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Nov 2013 17:03:13 +0100 | From | Levente Kurusa <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] regmap: Fix 'ret' would return an uninitialized value |
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2013-11-15 16:52 keltezéssel, Geyslan Gregório Bem írta: > 2013/11/15 Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com>: >> 2013-11-15 14:00 keltezéssel, Geyslan Gregório Bem írta: >>> 2013/11/15 Caizhiyong <caizhiyong@hisilicon.com>: >>>> From: Cai Zhiyong <caizhiyong@huawei.com> >>>> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 19:26:14 +0800 >>>> Subject: [PATCH] regmap: Fix 'ret' would return an uninitialized value >>>> >>>> This patch give a warning when calling regmap_register_patch with >>>> parameter num_regs <= 0. >>>> >>>> When the num_regs parameter is zero and krealloc doesn't fail, >>>> then the code would return an uninitialized value. However, >>>> calling this function with num_regs == 0, would be a waste as it >>>> essentially does nothing. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Cai Zhiyong <caizhiyong@huawei.com> >>> Reviewed-by: Geyslan G. Bem <geyslan@gmail.com> >>> >>> Seems a good approach. >>> >> >> The patch doesn't apply. After manually applying this it >> threw a compilation error: >> >> drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c: In function ‘regmap_register_patch’: >> drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c:2176:6: error: expected expression before ‘)’ token >> >> >> Cai, >> You have missed the second parameter of WARN_ONCE(). >> Please append what you'd prefer to have outputten once the condition evaluates to true. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Levente Kurusa > Cai, Levente, > > Maybe this: > > + if (WARN_ONCE(num_regs <= 0, "number of registers [%d] must be > major than 0", num_regs)) > + return 0; > + >
It is fine, but I think outputting num_regs is unnecessary. Also, that line is more than 80 characters, so please wrap it.
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