Re: [PATCH] gpio: swnode: Don't use __free() on result of swnode_get_gpio_device()

[Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 04:03:20PM +0000, Charles Keepax wrote:
> swnode_get_gpio_device() can return an error pointer, however
> gpio_device_put() is not able to accept error values. Thus using
> __free() will result in dereferencing an invalid pointer.
> 

No, this code works as-is.  The gpio_device_put() won't be called
directly, it will be called by a wrapper that checks for error pointers.
The __free() stuff is defined like this:

include/linux/gpio/driver.h
   655  DEFINE_FREE(gpio_device_put, struct gpio_device *,
   656              if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(_T)) gpio_device_put(_T))

So it handles error pointers correctly.

regards,
dan carpenter