Re: [PATCH] drm/panthor: Fix NULL vs IS_ERR() bug in panthor_ioctl_tiler_heap_destroy()

[Boris Brezillon]

Hello Harshit,

On Tue,  2 Apr 2024 03:33:58 -0700
Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> panthor_vm_get_heap_pool() returns ERR_PTR on failure.
> 
> Fixes: 4bdca1150792 ("drm/panthor: Add the driver frontend block")
> Signed-off-by: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This is spotted by smatch and the patch is only compile tested
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_drv.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_drv.c
> index 11b3ccd58f85..050b905b0453 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_drv.c
> @@ -1090,8 +1090,8 @@ static int panthor_ioctl_tiler_heap_destroy(struct drm_device *ddev, void *data,
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
>  	pool = panthor_vm_get_heap_pool(vm, false);
> -	if (!pool) {
> -		ret = -EINVAL;
> +	if (IS_ERR(pool)) {
> +		ret = PTR_ERR(pool);

Actually, panthor_vm_get_heap_pool() will return NULL if there's no
heap pool attached to this VM and create=false, so this was correct.
This being said, I'm fine making that consistent by returning
ERR_PTR(-ENOENT) instead of NULL in that case. This way we don't have
two different semantics based on the 'create' value.

Oh, and please merge everything into a single patch instead of one patch
per call-site.

Regards,

Boris

>  		goto out_put_vm;
>  	}
>