Re: [cocci] [PATCH] firmware: ti_sci: Fix exception handling in ti_sci_probe()

[Nishanth Menon]

On 22:10-20230405, Markus Elfring wrote:
> Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2023 22:00:18 +0200

B4 does'nt pick this patch up cleanly. And for some reason, I get
mangled patch from public-inbox as well :( a clean git-send-email might
help.

> 
> The label “out” was used to jump to another pointer check despite of

Please use " for quotes.

> the detail in the implementation of the function “ti_sci_probe”
> that it was determined already that the corresponding variable
> contained an error pointer because of a failed call of
> the function “mbox_request_channel_byname”.

> 
> * Thus use more appropriate labels instead.
> 
> * Delete two redundant checks.
> 

How about this:

Optimize out the redundant pointer check in exit path of "out" using
appropriate labels to jump in the error path
> 
Drop the extra EoL

> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Curious: what rule of coccicheck caught this?

> 
> Fixes: aa276781a64a5f15ecc21e920960c5b1f84e5fee ("firmware: Add basic support for TI System Control Interface (TI-SCI) protocol")

12 char sha please. Please read Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst

> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/firmware/ti_sci.c | 19 ++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/ti_sci.c b/drivers/firmware/ti_sci.c
> index 039d92a595ec..77012d2f4160 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/ti_sci.c
turns out as =2D-- instead of -- (might check the git format-patch
output closer).

> +++ b/drivers/firmware/ti_sci.c
> @@ -3433,18 +3433,18 @@ static int ti_sci_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	info->chan_rx = mbox_request_channel_byname(cl, "rx");
>  	if (IS_ERR(info->chan_rx)) {
>  		ret = PTR_ERR(info->chan_rx);
> -		goto out;
> +		goto remove_debugfs;
>  	}
> 
>  	info->chan_tx = mbox_request_channel_byname(cl, "tx");
>  	if (IS_ERR(info->chan_tx)) {
>  		ret = PTR_ERR(info->chan_tx);
> -		goto out;
> +		goto free_mbox_channel_rx;
>  	}
>  	ret = ti_sci_cmd_get_revision(info);
>  	if (ret) {
>  		dev_err(dev, "Unable to communicate with TISCI(%d)\n", ret);
> -		goto out;
> +		goto free_mbox_channel_tx;
>  	}
> 
>  	ti_sci_setup_ops(info);
> @@ -3456,7 +3456,7 @@ static int ti_sci_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  		ret = register_restart_handler(&info->nb);
>  		if (ret) {
>  			dev_err(dev, "reboot registration fail(%d)\n", ret);
> -			goto out;
> +			goto free_mbox_channel_tx;
>  		}
>  	}
> 
> @@ -3470,11 +3470,12 @@ static int ti_sci_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	mutex_unlock(&ti_sci_list_mutex);
> 
>  	return of_platform_populate(dev->of_node, NULL, NULL, dev);
> -out:
> -	if (!IS_ERR(info->chan_tx))
> -		mbox_free_channel(info->chan_tx);
> -	if (!IS_ERR(info->chan_rx))
> -		mbox_free_channel(info->chan_rx);
> +
> +free_mbox_channel_tx:
> +	mbox_free_channel(info->chan_tx);
> +free_mbox_channel_rx:
> +	mbox_free_channel(info->chan_rx);
> +remove_debugfs:
>  	debugfs_remove(info->d);
>  	return ret;
>  }
> --
> 2.40.0
> 

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Regards,
Nishanth Menon
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