[PATCH v9 2/7] nvmem: core: Return NULL when no nvmem layout is found

From: Miquel Raynal
Date: Tue Aug 08 2023 - 13:42:32 EST


Currently, of_nvmem_layout_get_container() returns NULL on error, or an
error pointer if either CONFIG_NVMEM or CONFIG_OF is turned off. We
should likely avoid this kind of mix for two reasons: to clarify the
intend and anyway fix the !CONFIG_OF which will likely always if we use
this helper somewhere else. Let's just return NULL when no layout is
found, we don't need an error value here.

Link: https://staticthinking.wordpress.com/2022/08/01/mixing-error-pointers-and-null/
Fixes: 266570f496b9 ("nvmem: core: introduce NVMEM layouts")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202308030002.DnSFOrMB-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx>

---

Backports to stable kernels is likely not needed as I believe the error
pointer will be discarded "magically" by the of/ code.
---
include/linux/nvmem-consumer.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/nvmem-consumer.h b/include/linux/nvmem-consumer.h
index fa030d93b768..27373024856d 100644
--- a/include/linux/nvmem-consumer.h
+++ b/include/linux/nvmem-consumer.h
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ static inline struct nvmem_device *of_nvmem_device_get(struct device_node *np,
static inline struct device_node *
of_nvmem_layout_get_container(struct nvmem_device *nvmem)
{
- return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP);
+ return NULL;
}
#endif /* CONFIG_NVMEM && CONFIG_OF */

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