Re: [PATCH] keyboard: (samsung) fix a missing check of return value

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Wed Dec 26 2018 - 14:58:23 EST


Hi,

On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 07:51:29PM -0600, Kangjie Lu wrote:
> of_device_is_compatible() returns false if the device is incompatible.
> The fix adds a check for its return value;
>
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/input/keyboard/samsung-keypad.c | 10 +++++++---
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/input/keyboard/samsung-keypad.c b/drivers/input/keyboard/samsung-keypad.c
> index 1fe1aa2adf85..5ba940f3f76e 100644
> --- a/drivers/input/keyboard/samsung-keypad.c
> +++ b/drivers/input/keyboard/samsung-keypad.c
> @@ -387,9 +387,13 @@ static int samsung_keypad_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> keypad->stopped = true;
> init_waitqueue_head(&keypad->wait);
>
> - if (pdev->dev.of_node)
> - keypad->type = of_device_is_compatible(pdev->dev.of_node,
> - "samsung,s5pv210-keypad");
> + if (pdev->dev.of_node) {
> + error = of_device_is_compatible(pdev->dev.of_node,
> + "samsung,s5pv210-keypad");
> + if (!error)
> + return -EINVAL;

What makes you think that not matching on this compatible is an error?
Have you looked at the rest of the dirver?

> + keypad->type = error;
> + }
> else
> keypad->type = platform_get_device_id(pdev)->driver_data;
>
> --
> 2.17.2 (Apple Git-113)
>

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Dmitry