Re: [PATCH] drivers/mtd/devices/spear_smi.c: failure test for nullrather than negative integer

From: viresh kumar
Date: Wed Jul 11 2012 - 05:01:57 EST


Adding spear-devel mailing list in cc.

@Shiraz: Can you update ST's mailing list address in entire MAINTAINERS file, so
that people can include ST's list easily?

On 11/07/12 09:58, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>
>
> dev_get_platdata returns a pointer, so the failure value would be NULL
> rather than a negative integer.
>
> The semantic match that finds this problem is: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression x,e;
> statement S1,S2;
> @@
>
> *x = dev_get_platdata(...)
> ... when != x = e
> *if (x < 0) S1 else S2
> // </smpl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> drivers/mtd/devices/spear_smi.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/spear_smi.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/spear_smi.c
> index b85f183..7c10466 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/devices/spear_smi.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/spear_smi.c
> @@ -935,7 +935,7 @@ static int __devinit spear_smi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> }
> } else {
> pdata = dev_get_platdata(&pdev->dev);
> - if (pdata < 0) {
> + if (!pdata) {
> ret = -ENODEV;
> dev_err(&pdev->dev, "no platform data\n");
> goto err;

Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>

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