It is possible that the error case for devm_clk_get() returns NULL, in which case zero will be passed to PTR_ERR() as shown by the Smatch static checker warning: drivers/spi/spi-microchip-core.c:557 mchp_corespi_probe() warn: passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' Fix the warning by explicitly returning an error if devm_clk_get() returns NULL. Fixes: 9ac8d17694b6 ("spi: add support for microchip fpga spi controllers") Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spi/20220615091633.GI2168@kadam/ Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spi-microchip-core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-microchip-core.c b/drivers/spi/spi-microchip-core.c index 5b2aee30fa04..d44663cca071 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi-microchip-core.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-microchip-core.c @@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ static int mchp_corespi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) spi->clk = devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, NULL); if (!spi->clk || IS_ERR(spi->clk)) { - ret = PTR_ERR(spi->clk); + ret = !spi->clk ? -ENXIO : PTR_ERR(spi->clk); dev_err(&pdev->dev, "could not get clk: %d\n", ret); goto error_release_master; } -- 2.36.1