Re: [PATCH] [v2] hwrng: core: Fix missing check during driver release

[Herbert Xu]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 11:26:12AM -0600, Aditya Pakki wrote:
> devres_release can return -ENOENT if the device is not freed. The fix
> throws a warning consistent with other invocations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/char/hw_random/core.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
> index 95be7228f327..1b05da40626a 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
> @@ -578,7 +578,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_hwrng_register);
>  
>  void devm_hwrng_unregister(struct device *dev, struct hwrng *rng)
>  {
> -	devres_release(dev, devm_hwrng_release, devm_hwrng_match, rng);
> +	WARN_ON(devres_release(dev, devm_hwrng_release,
> +				devm_hwrng_match, rng));

Hmm please don't perform real operations within a WARN_ON.  This
is potentially confusing to the reader.  If you had to do this, do
it like

	err = devres_release(...);
	WARN_ON(err);

I'd also like to know under what circumstances can you get an
-ENOENT?

Thanks,
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