Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 5/7] usb: xhci: plat: Remove checks for optional clock in error/remove path

From: Felipe Balbi
Date: Wed Apr 27 2016 - 03:21:54 EST



Hi,

Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Dear Felipe,
>
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 08:33:52 +0300 Felipe Balbi wrote:
>
>> Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > Commit 63589e92c2d9 ("clk: Ignore error and NULL pointers passed to
>> > clk_{unprepare, disable}()") allows NULL or error pointer to be passed
>> > unconditionally.
>> >
>> > This patch is to simplify probe error and remove code paths.
>>
>> this seems wrong to me. xhci->clk isn't initialized to NULL, it's either
>> initialized to a valid struct clk * or some ERR_PTR() value.
>
> Commit 63589e92c2d9 could also ignore error value ;)

oh okay, thanks for that. That's, IMHO, quite dangerous ;-)

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balbi

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