Re: [PATCH 8/9] drivers/mmc: correct error-handling code

From: Anton Vorontsov
Date: Tue Jul 28 2009 - 12:11:25 EST


On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 05:56:00PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
>
> sdhci_alloc_host returns an ERR_PTR value in an error case instead of NULL.
>
> A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
> follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>
> // <smpl>
> @match exists@
> expression x, E;
> statement S1, S2;
> @@
>
> x = sdhci_alloc_host(...)
> ... when != x = E
> (
> * if (x == NULL || ...) S1 else S2
> |
> * if (x == NULL && ...) S1 else S2
> )
> // </smpl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

> ---
> drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of.c b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of.c
> index d79fa55..fb00bc5 100644
> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of.c
> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of.c
> @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ static int __devinit sdhci_of_probe(struct of_device *ofdev,
> return -ENODEV;
>
> host = sdhci_alloc_host(&ofdev->dev, sizeof(*of_host));
> - if (!host)
> + if (IS_ERR(host))
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> of_host = sdhci_priv(host);

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