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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ARM: imx: clean up error handling
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 09:24:30PM +0200, Emil Goode wrote:
> If we fail to allocate struct platform_device pdev we
> dereference it after the goto label err.
>
> I have rearranged the error handling a bit to fix the issue
> and also make it more clear.
>
> Signed-off-by: Emil Goode <emilgoode@gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c | 22 +++++++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c b/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c
> index fc4dd7c..14d61d9 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c
> @@ -77,34 +77,38 @@ struct platform_device *__init imx_alloc_mx3_camera(
>
> pdev = platform_device_alloc("mx3-camera", 0);
> if (!pdev)
> - goto err;
> + return ERR_PTR(ret);

It's more readable to say "return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);".

This patch is great but the subject should say "fix" and not "clean up"
since it fixes a NULL dereference bug. The people who call their
checkpatch.pl clean ups "fixes" are also doing it wrong but those are
newbies and not worth educating.

regards,
dan carpenter



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