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[2/2,net] cxgb4: ptp_clock_register() returns error pointers

Message ID 20170710071615.k6b6726cwushhdmm@mwanda
State Changes Requested, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Commit Message

Dan Carpenter July 10, 2017, 7:16 a.m. UTC
We're checking ptp_clock_register() for NULL but we should be checking
for error pointers.

Fixes: 9c33e4208bce ("cxgb4: Add PTP Hardware Clock (PHC) support")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

Comments

Richard Cochran July 10, 2017, 9:56 a.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 10:16:15AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> We're checking ptp_clock_register() for NULL but we should be checking
> for error pointers.

No.

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_ptp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_ptp.c
> index 50517cfd9671..c24313a103c6 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_ptp.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_ptp.c
> @@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ void cxgb4_ptp_init(struct adapter *adapter)
>  
>  	adapter->ptp_clock = ptp_clock_register(&adapter->ptp_clock_info,
>  						&adapter->pdev->dev);
> -	if (!adapter->ptp_clock) {

Yeah, that is wrong, but the fix is to check to IS_ERR or NULL.

Thanks,
Richard
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_ptp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_ptp.c
index 50517cfd9671..c24313a103c6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_ptp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_ptp.c
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@  void cxgb4_ptp_init(struct adapter *adapter)
 
 	adapter->ptp_clock = ptp_clock_register(&adapter->ptp_clock_info,
 						&adapter->pdev->dev);
-	if (!adapter->ptp_clock) {
+	if (IS_ERR(adapter->ptp_clock)) {
 		dev_err(adapter->pdev_dev,
 			"PTP %s Clock registration has failed\n", __func__);
 		return;