Re: [RFC v1 PATCH 3/3] driver: update all the code that use soc_device_match

[Guenter Roeck]

On 4/18/21 9:27 PM, Alice Guo (OSS) wrote:
> From: Alice Guo <alice.guo@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Update all the code that use soc_device_match because add support for
> soc_device_match returning -EPROBE_DEFER.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alice Guo <alice.guo@xxxxxxx>
> ---
[ ... ]
>  drivers/watchdog/renesas_wdt.c                |  2 +-
>  48 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
> 
[ ... ]
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/renesas_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/renesas_wdt.c
> index 5791198960e6..fdc534dc4024 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/renesas_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/renesas_wdt.c
> @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ static bool rwdt_blacklisted(struct device *dev)
>  	const struct soc_device_attribute *attr;
>  
>  	attr = soc_device_match(rwdt_quirks_match);
> -	if (attr && setup_max_cpus > (uintptr_t)attr->data) {
> +	if (!IS_ERR(attr) && attr && setup_max_cpus > (uintptr_t)attr->data) {

This is wrong. We can not make the decision below without having access
to attr. The function may wrongly return false if soc_device_match()
returns an error.

Guenter

>  		dev_info(dev, "Watchdog blacklisted on %s %s\n", attr->soc_id,
>  			 attr->revision);
>  		return true;
>