From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> PTR_ERR should be called before its argument is cleared. The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression e,e1; constant c; @@ *e = c ... when != e = e1 when != &e when != true IS_ERR(e) *PTR_ERR(e) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> Reported-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: correct commit message. drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c | 3 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_mdio.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c index efd4f3e..922a937 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c @@ -1600,8 +1600,9 @@ static int emac_dev_open(struct net_device *ndev) if (IS_ERR(priv->phydev)) { dev_err(emac_dev, "could not connect to phy %s\n", priv->phy_id); + ret = PTR_ERR(priv->phydev); priv->phydev = NULL; - return PTR_ERR(priv->phydev); + return ret; } priv->link = 0; diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_mdio.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_mdio.c index ef7c9c1..af8b8fc 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_mdio.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_mdio.c @@ -318,9 +318,9 @@ static int __devinit davinci_mdio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) data->clk = clk_get(dev, NULL); if (IS_ERR(data->clk)) { - data->clk = NULL; dev_err(dev, "failed to get device clock\n"); ret = PTR_ERR(data->clk); + data->clk = NULL; goto bail_out; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
