On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Matt Ranostay, > > The patch 92f0afb5b2be: "iio: adc: ti-adc161s626: add regulator > support" from Sep 18, 2016, leads to the following static checker > warning: > > drivers/iio/adc/ti-adc161s626.c:237 ti_adc_probe() > error: 'data->ref' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR() > > drivers/iio/adc/ti-adc161s626.c > 214 > 215 data->ref = devm_regulator_get(&spi->dev, "vdda"); > 216 if (!IS_ERR(data->ref)) { > > I don't understand what's going on here. Ok seems weird but this is because of devm_regulator_get() returning a dummy regulator (CONFIG_REGULATOR_DUMMY) in case "vdda" isn't defined. So no reason to enable that... > > 217 ret = regulator_enable(data->ref); > 218 if (ret < 0) > 219 return ret; > 220 } > 221 > 222 ret = iio_triggered_buffer_setup(indio_dev, NULL, > 223 ti_adc_trigger_handler, NULL); > 224 if (ret) > 225 goto error_regulator_disable; > 226 > 227 ret = iio_device_register(indio_dev); > 228 if (ret) > 229 goto error_unreg_buffer; > 230 > 231 return 0; > 232 > 233 error_unreg_buffer: > 234 iio_triggered_buffer_cleanup(indio_dev); > 235 > 236 error_regulator_disable: > 237 regulator_disable(data->ref); > > Static checker is correct. Ok that is part is probably true and maybe needs a IS_ERR check > > 238 > 239 return ret; > 240 } > > regards, > dan carpenter > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html