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SubjectRe: [PATCH] platform/x86: surface3_power: i2c_acpi_new_device() returns a PTR_ERR
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Hi,

On 4/21/20 12:33 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 1:04 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> i2c_acpi_new_device() never returns NULL, it either returns an i2c_client
>> or a PTR_ERR. Adjust the mshw0011_probe() error handling to take this
>> into account.
>>
>> Note the goto out_err will cause i2c_unregister_device() to get called
>> even though the i2c_acpi_new_device() fails, this is ok as it accepts
>> a NULL pointer argument (and treats it as a no-op).
>>
>
> Thanks, I guess it repeats [1].
>
> [1]: http://git.infradead.org/linux-platform-drivers-x86.git/commitdiff/4dbccb873f2b35ad1b26419ff88c80509e2d4cbb

I guess it does and Dan's solution for the error handling is
claner then mine, a direct return indeed is the proper thing
to do here.

Regards,

Hans



>
>> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/platform/x86/surface3_power.c | 6 ++++--
>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/surface3_power.c b/drivers/platform/x86/surface3_power.c
>> index 946ac2dc08ae..32e6e86e27dd 100644
>> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/surface3_power.c
>> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/surface3_power.c
>> @@ -522,8 +522,10 @@ static int mshw0011_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
>> strlcpy(board_info.type, "MSHW0011-bat0", I2C_NAME_SIZE);
>>
>> bat0 = i2c_acpi_new_device(dev, 1, &board_info);
>> - if (!bat0)
>> - return -ENOMEM;
>> + if (IS_ERR(bat0)) {
>> + error = PTR_ERR(bat0);
>> + goto out_err;
>> + }
>>
>> data->bat0 = bat0;
>> i2c_set_clientdata(bat0, data);
>> --
>> 2.26.0
>>
>
>

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