Re: [PATCH] fsl/fman: Delete one function call "put_device" in dtsec_config()

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Thu Jan 14 2016 - 11:27:58 EST


On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 04:00:46PM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 15:46:28 +0100
>
> The Coccinelle semantic patch script "deref_null.cocci" pointed a problem
> out in the implementation of the function "dtsec_config".
>
> A null pointer was assigned to the data structure member "tbiphy" of the
> variable "dtsec" if a matching device was not found.
> A call of the function "put_device" was unnecessary then because
> a previous call of the function "get_device" was not triggered.
> Thus remove the function call "put_device" after the printing of the
> desired error message.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Fixes: 57ba4c9b56d8 ("fsl/fman: Add FMan MAC support")
Reviewd-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

Andrew
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/fman_dtsec.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/fman_dtsec.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/fman_dtsec.c
> index 6b1261c..7c92eb8 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/fman_dtsec.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/fman_dtsec.c
> @@ -1434,7 +1434,6 @@ struct fman_mac *dtsec_config(struct fman_mac_params *params)
> dtsec->tbiphy = of_phy_find_device(params->internal_phy_node);
> if (!dtsec->tbiphy) {
> pr_err("of_phy_find_device (TBI PHY) failed\n");
> - put_device(&dtsec->tbiphy->mdio.dev);
> goto err_dtsec_drv_param;
> }
>
> --
> 2.6.3
>