Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 08/13] video: fbdev: simplefb: Check before clk_put() not needed

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Thu Jun 30 2022 - 15:31:30 EST


Hi Sasha,

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 4:32 AM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Yihao Han <hanyihao@xxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit 5491424d17bdeb7b7852a59367858251783f8398 ]
>
> clk_put() already checks the clk ptr using !clk and IS_ERR()

While I think that is true for all clock implementations in v5.19-rc4,
it is not true for v4.9.320.

> so there is no need to check it again before calling it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yihao Han <hanyihao@xxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>

> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c
> @@ -231,8 +231,7 @@ static int simplefb_clocks_init(struct simplefb_par *par,
> if (IS_ERR(clock)) {
> if (PTR_ERR(clock) == -EPROBE_DEFER) {
> while (--i >= 0) {
> - if (par->clks[i])
> - clk_put(par->clks[i]);
> + clk_put(par->clks[i]);
> }
> kfree(par->clks);
> return -EPROBE_DEFER;

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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