Re: [PATCH] base: fix a missing check of clk_prepare

[Pavel Machek]

On Wed 2018-12-26 10:37:54, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 3:47 AM Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > clk_prepare() could fail, so let's check its status, and if it fails,
> > issue an error message.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c b/drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c
> > index 5a42ae4078c2..cb6144fb24e2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c
> > +++ b/drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c
> > @@ -65,7 +65,9 @@ static void pm_clk_acquire(struct device *dev, struct pm_clock_entry *ce)
> >         if (IS_ERR(ce->clk)) {
> >                 ce->status = PCE_STATUS_ERROR;
> >         } else {
> > -               clk_prepare(ce->clk);
> > +               if (clk_prepare(ce->clk))
> > +                       dev_err(dev, "clk_prepare failed.\n");
> 
> I'm not sure that this is useful.  The code continues regardless of
> the error anyway and it should at least set ce->status to
> PCE_STATUS_ERROR in the failing case.

Maybe this is not complete fix, but dev_err() is preferable to silent
failure.
									Pavel
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