Re: [PATCH] clk: check ops pointer on clock register

[Stephen Boyd]

On 12/18, Jerome Brunet wrote:
> Nothing really prevents a provider from (trying to) register a clock
> without providing the clock ops structure.
> 
> We do check the individual fields before using them, but not the
> structure pointer itself. This may have the usual nasty consequences when
> the pointer is dereferenced, mostly likely when checking one the field
> during the initialization.

Yes, that nasty consequence should be a kernel oops, and the
developer should notice that before submitting the driver for
inclusion. I don't think we really care to return an error here
if this happens.

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