Re: [PATCH v2 next] media: i2c: fix error handling in ub960_rxport_add_serializer()

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Tue Jul 18 2023 - 10:19:24 EST


On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 07:06:58AM -0700, Harshit Mogalapalli wrote:
> Smatch warns:
> drivers/media/i2c/ds90ub960.c:1671 ub960_rxport_add_serializer():
> err: 'rxport->ser.client' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
>
> i2c_new_client_device() returns error pointers on failure and in
> dev_dbg statement we are dereferencing error pointer which is a bug.
>
> Fix this by using IS_ERR() which checks for error pointers.

Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko