RE: [RESEND PATCH] PM / devfreq: Fix static checker warning in try_then_request_governor

From: MyungJoo Ham
Date: Thu Mar 14 2019 - 03:47:45 EST


>The patch 23c7b54ca1cd: "PM / devfreq: Fix devfreq_add_device() when
>drivers are built as modules." leads to the following static checker
>warning:
>
> drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c:1043 governor_store()
> warn: 'governor' can also be NULL
>
>The reason is that the try_then_request_governor() function returns both
>error pointers and NULL. It should just return error pointers, so fix
>this by returning a ERR_PTR to the error intead of returning NULL.
>
>Fixes: 23c7b54ca1cd ("PM / devfreq: Fix devfreq_add_device() when drivers are built as modules.")
>Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Signed-off-by: Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reviewed-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>---
>Hi,
>
>This is a resend of [1] as seems that got lost at some point and I just
>noticed that was never merged.
>
>Thanks,
> Enric

Acked-by: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!


CHeers,
MyungJoo