Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] ACPI / bus: Return error code from __acpi_match_device() in one case

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On Sun, 2018-02-04 at 08:16 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 9:20 PM, Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Instead of playing tricks with last invalid entry,
> > return simple -ENODATA error code casted to pointer.
> > 
> > It would be good for future in case caller passes NULL pointer for
> > ID table. Moreover, caller can check the code to be sure what
> > happened
> > inside callee.

> > -                       return id;
> > +                       return ERR_PTR(-ENODATA);
> 
> So why is returning id from here a problem?

I think you already noticed that in the following patch it becomes a
problem if user supply ids == NULL.

That's why I added a second paragraph to the commit message to explain.

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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Intel Finland Oy
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