The subject format is wrong and the summary itself isn't very informative.
On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 13:56:42 +0100
This patch format is wrong, please consider using `git format-patch`
and `git send-email`.
> The platform_device_put() function was called in one case by the
> add_child() function during error handling even if the passed
> variable "pdev" contained a null pointer.
>
> Implementation details could be improved by the adjustment of jump targets
> according to the Linux coding style convention.
>
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/mfd/dm355evm_msp.c | 21 ++++++++++-----------
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/dm355evm_msp.c b/drivers/mfd/dm355evm_msp.c
> index bc90efe..e4aa1b8 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/dm355evm_msp.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/dm355evm_msp.c
> @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ static struct device *add_child(struct i2c_client *client, const char *name,
> if (!pdev) {
> dev_dbg(&client->dev, "can't alloc dev\n");
Make this dev_err().
> status = -ENOMEM;
> - goto err;
> + goto report_failure;
Return here.
> }
>
> device_init_wakeup(&pdev->dev, can_wakeup);
> @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ static struct device *add_child(struct i2c_client *client, const char *name,
> status = platform_device_add_data(pdev, pdata, pdata_len);
> if (status < 0) {
> dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "can't add platform_data\n");
> - goto err;
> + goto put_device;
> }
> }
>
> @@ -225,19 +225,18 @@ static struct device *add_child(struct i2c_client *client, const char *name,
> status = platform_device_add_resources(pdev, &r, 1);
> if (status < 0) {
> dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "can't add irq\n");
> - goto err;
> + goto put_device;
> }
> }
>
> status = platform_device_add(pdev);
> -
> -err:
> - if (status < 0) {
> - platform_device_put(pdev);
> - dev_err(&client->dev, "can't add %s dev\n", name);
> - return ERR_PTR(status);
> - }
> - return &pdev->dev;
> + if (!status)
Be more consistent here.
Reverse the condition and return an instead, as you do above.
> + return &pdev->dev;
> +put_device:
> + platform_device_put(pdev);
> +report_failure:
> + dev_err(&client->dev, "can't add %s dev\n", name);
This isn't a very friendly error message. Better to convert the
dev_dbg() calls to dev_err() and tell the user what the problem was.
> + return ERR_PTR(status);
> }
>
> static int add_children(struct i2c_client *client)
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