From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756514AbaLIGLg (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2014 01:11:36 -0500 Received: from mailgw02.mediatek.com ([210.61.82.184]:35064 "EHLO mailgw02.mediatek.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751009AbaLIGLe (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2014 01:11:34 -0500 X-Listener-Flag: 11101 Subject: Re: [PATCH] irqchip: mediatek: Fix error return code detection From: Yingjoe Chen To: Thomas Gleixner CC: Beniamino Galvani , Jason Cooper , Marc Zyngier , , , , , Matthias Brugger , , Sascha Hauer , , , In-Reply-To: References: <1418050989-21411-1-git-send-email-yingjoe.chen@mediatek.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 14:11:29 +0800 Message-ID: <1418105489.32622.11.camel@mtksdaap41> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MTK: N Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 21:30 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 8 Dec 2014, Yingjoe Chen wrote: > > > This fix an error handling bug reported by Beniamino, this is based on > > mtk intpol patches [1] > > > > Joe.C > > > > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-November/305808.html > > > > ==================== > > of_io_request_and_map() return ERR_PTR wrapped error code instead of > > NULL when fail, fix code in mtk_sysirq_of_init() to correctly handle > > this. > > > > Signed-off-by: Yingjoe Chen > > This is not a proper changelog. Let me write up a proper one: > > Subject: irqchip: mediatek: Use IS_ERR() instead of NULL pointer check > > Beniamino reported a kernel oops caused by an invalid DT file for the > mediatek interrupt polarity extension. > > The reason is that the interrupt polarity support for mediatek chips > merily checks for at NULL pointer instead of a casted error return > value in mtk_sysirq_of_init() so any other casted error value passes > the NULL pointer check and causes a kernel panic when dereferenced. > > Use IS_ERR() and return the error value via PTR_ERR(). > > Reported-and-tested-by: Beniamino Galvani > Signed-off-by: Yingjoe Chen > > Can you see the difference? > > Thanks, > > tglx Thanks for the review. This changelog describe issue and why we need this change more clearly. I'll prepare a new patch with this changelog, Thanks. Joe.C