Re: [PATCH] PCC: fix dereference of ERR_PTR

From: Sudip Mukherjee
Date: Thu Oct 08 2015 - 10:18:15 EST


On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 07:34:24PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> get_pcc_channel() does not return NULL on error it returns the error code
> in ERR_PTR, but we have been checking it for NULL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
A gentle ping.

regards
sudip

> drivers/mailbox/pcc.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/pcc.c b/drivers/mailbox/pcc.c
> index 68885a8..45d85ae 100644
> --- a/drivers/mailbox/pcc.c
> +++ b/drivers/mailbox/pcc.c
> @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ struct mbox_chan *pcc_mbox_request_channel(struct mbox_client *cl,
> */
> chan = get_pcc_channel(subspace_id);
>
> - if (!chan || chan->cl) {
> + if (IS_ERR(chan) || chan->cl) {
> dev_err(dev, "Channel not found for idx: %d\n", subspace_id);
> return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY);
> }
> --
> 1.9.1
>
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