From: Uday Khare <udaykhare77@gmail.com>
To: sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com, jacopo@jmondi.org, mchehab@kernel.org
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Uday Khare <udaykhare77@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] media: i2c: mt9t112: fix incorrect PTR_ERR() call on non-error pointer
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:18:31 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260720114831.33470-1-udaykhare77@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <al4HvRWaRAMFPUrQ@kekkonen.localdomain>
In mt9t112_probe(), the clock error check after devm_v4l2_sensor_clk_get()
calls PTR_ERR(priv->clk) unconditionally, before testing IS_ERR().
On a successful lookup, priv->clk is a valid pointer and calling PTR_ERR()
on it is incorrect API usage. While the comparison against -ENOENT happens
to be harmless in practice (valid kernel pointers never fall in the error
range), this is still a violation of the IS_ERR()/PTR_ERR() contract that
can mislead readers.
Restructure the check to guard PTR_ERR() inside IS_ERR(), using the
simpler != -ENOENT form to avoid an unnecessary else clause.
Signed-off-by: Uday Khare <udaykhare77@gmail.com>
---
drivers/media/i2c/mt9t112.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/mt9t112.c b/drivers/media/i2c/mt9t112.c
index bd2268154ca7..b3a6c6d76632 100644
--- a/drivers/media/i2c/mt9t112.c
+++ b/drivers/media/i2c/mt9t112.c
@@ -1079,11 +1079,12 @@ static int mt9t112_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
v4l2_i2c_subdev_init(&priv->subdev, client, &mt9t112_subdev_ops);
priv->clk = devm_v4l2_sensor_clk_get(&client->dev, "extclk");
- if (PTR_ERR(priv->clk) == -ENOENT)
+ if (IS_ERR(priv->clk)) {
+ if (PTR_ERR(priv->clk) != -ENOENT)
+ return dev_err_probe(&client->dev, PTR_ERR(priv->clk),
+ "Unable to get clock \"extclk\"\n");
priv->clk = NULL;
- else if (IS_ERR(priv->clk))
- return dev_err_probe(&client->dev, PTR_ERR(priv->clk),
- "Unable to get clock \"extclk\"\n");
+ }
priv->standby_gpio = devm_gpiod_get_optional(&client->dev, "standby",
GPIOD_OUT_HIGH);
--
2.55.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-20 11:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-20 10:59 [PATCH] media: i2c: mt9t112: fix missing IS_ERR() check before PTR_ERR() Uday Khare
2026-07-20 11:34 ` Sakari Ailus
2026-07-20 11:48 ` Uday Khare [this message]
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