Re: [PATCH] thermal: ti-soc-thermal: avoid dereferencing ERR_PTR

[Amit Kucheria]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 6:27 PM Sudip Mukherjee
<sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On error the function ti_bandgap_get_sensor_data() returns the error
> code in ERR_PTR() but we only checked if the return value is NULL or
> not. And, so we can dereference a error code inside ERR_PTR.

Typo, s/a error/an error/

I see other uses of ti_bandgap_set_sensor_data() in the same file that
could use similar checks.

e.g. ti_thermal_unregister_cpu_cooling, possibly
ti_thermal_report_sensor_temperature?

>
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx>


> ---
>  drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-thermal-common.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-thermal-common.c b/drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-thermal-common.c
> index d3e959d01606..1e2bf1f22dd1 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-thermal-common.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-thermal-common.c
> @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ int ti_thermal_remove_sensor(struct ti_bandgap *bgp, int id)
>
>         data = ti_bandgap_get_sensor_data(bgp, id);
>
> -       if (data && data->ti_thermal) {
> +       if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(data) && data->ti_thermal) {
>                 if (data->our_zone)
>                         thermal_zone_device_unregister(data->ti_thermal);
>         }
> --
> 2.11.0
>