Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] wwan: core: Avoid returning error pointer from wwan_create_dev()

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Fri Aug 06 2021 - 05:08:10 EST


On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 09:53:57PM +0200, Loic Poulain wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2021 at 20:38, Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > wwan_create_dev() is expected to return either valid pointer or NULL,
> > In some cases it might return the error pointer. Prevent this by converting
> > it to NULL after wwan_dev_get_by_parent().
>
> wwan_create_dev is called both from wwan_register_ops() and
> wwan_create_port(), one using IS_ERR and the other using NULL testing,
> they should be aligned as well.

Ah, good catch!

I just sent v2, but eventually I have decided to switch to error pointer since
it seems the most used pattern in the code.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko