Re: [PATCH] firmware: arm_scmi: check return value of idr_find

From: Sudeep Holla
Date: Wed Apr 10 2019 - 12:25:43 EST


On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 10:02:39PM -0600, Kangjie Lu wrote:
> idr_find may return NULL, so check its return value and return an
> error code.
>

I can't imagine a scenario leading to this. Steven has already explained
why, so I won't repeat the same here. Did you hit this issue ?

If so I would like to know details, so that we can bail out much earlier
where the failure occurs than proceed until this point.

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Regards,
Sudeep