just a notice: from my casual observation i noticed that most people expect a function to return NULL on error (as seen here). So i would suggest to return NULL and (if needed) the error code otherwise. jm2c, re wh ________________________________________ Von: kernel-janitors-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <kernel-janitors-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> im Auftrag von Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. Mai 2020 05:41:15 An: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Grygorii Strashko; Christophe JAILLET; Colin Ian King; Jakub Kicinski Cc: Wei Yongjun; kernel-janitors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Hulk Robot Betreff: [PATCH 1/2 v3] net: ethernet: ti: fix some return value check of cpsw_ale_create() cpsw_ale_create() can return both NULL and PTR_ERR(), but all of the caller only check NULL for error handling. This patch convert it to only return PTR_ERR() in all error cases, and the caller using IS_ERR() instead of NULL test. Fixes: 4b41d3436796 ("net: ethernet: ti: cpsw: allow untagged traffic on host port") Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_ale.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_priv.c | 4 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_ethss.c | 4 ++-- 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_ale.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_ale.c index 0374e6936091..8dc6be11b2ff 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_ale.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_ale.c @@ -955,7 +955,7 @@ struct cpsw_ale *cpsw_ale_create(struct cpsw_ale_params *params) ale = devm_kzalloc(params->dev, sizeof(*ale), GFP_KERNEL); if (!ale) - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); ale->p0_untag_vid_mask = devm_kmalloc_array(params->dev, BITS_TO_LONGS(VLAN_N_VID), diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_priv.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_priv.c index 97a058ca60ac..d0b6c418a870 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_priv.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_priv.c @@ -490,9 +490,9 @@ int cpsw_init_common(struct cpsw_common *cpsw, void __iomem *ss_regs, ale_params.ale_ports = CPSW_ALE_PORTS_NUM; cpsw->ale = cpsw_ale_create(&ale_params); - if (!cpsw->ale) { + if (IS_ERR(cpsw->ale)) { dev_err(dev, "error initializing ale engine\n"); - return -ENODEV; + return PTR_ERR(cpsw->ale); } dma_params.dev = dev; diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_ethss.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_ethss.c index fb36115e9c51..fdbae734acce 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_ethss.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_ethss.c @@ -3704,9 +3704,9 @@ static int gbe_probe(struct netcp_device *netcp_device, struct device *dev, ale_params.nu_switch_ale = true; } gbe_dev->ale = cpsw_ale_create(&ale_params); - if (!gbe_dev->ale) { + if (IS_ERR(gbe_dev->ale)) { dev_err(gbe_dev->dev, "error initializing ale engine\n"); - ret = -ENODEV; + ret = PTR_ERR(gbe_dev->ale); goto free_sec_ports; } else { dev_dbg(gbe_dev->dev, "Created a gbe ale engine\n"); -- 2.25.1