Re: [PATCH 2/7] iommu/omap: omap_iommu_attach() should return ENODEV,not NULL

[Anna, Suman]

On 12/17/2013 06:53 AM, Florian Vaussard wrote:
> omap_iommu_attach() returns NULL or ERR_PTR in case of error, but
> omap_iommu_attach_dev() only checks for IS_ERR. Thus a NULL return value (in
> case driver_find_device fails) will cause the kernel to panic when
> omap_iommu_attach_dev() dereferences the pointer.
>
> In such case, omap_iommu_attach() should return ENODEV, not NULL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Vaussard <florian.vaussard@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Suman Anna <s-anna@xxxxxx>

> ---
>   drivers/iommu/omap-iommu.c | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/omap-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/omap-iommu.c
> index ee83bcc..385bf5e 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/omap-iommu.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/omap-iommu.c
> @@ -863,7 +863,7 @@ static int device_match_by_alias(struct device *dev, void *data)
>    **/
>   static struct omap_iommu *omap_iommu_attach(const char *name, u32 *iopgd)
>   {
> -	int err = -ENOMEM;
> +	int err = -ENODEV;
>   	struct device *dev;
>   	struct omap_iommu *obj;
>
> @@ -871,7 +871,7 @@ static struct omap_iommu *omap_iommu_attach(const char *name, u32 *iopgd)
>   				(void *)name,
>   				device_match_by_alias);
>   	if (!dev)
> -		return NULL;
> +		return ERR_PTR(err);
>
>   	obj = to_iommu(dev);

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