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From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dave@treblig.org>,
	matthew.brost@intel.com, mgreer@animalcreek.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, airlied@gmail.com,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: ERR_PTR(0) in a couple of places
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2023 13:41:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b3813a4e-3956-254c-a7cf-0fca65dc2cdd@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZQ+Fo9WKyGphwI8R@gallifrey>

On 24/09/2023 02:41, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> Hi,
>   I randomly noticed there are a couple of places in the kernel that
> do
>    ERR_PTR(0);
> 
> and thought that was odd - shouldn't those just be NULL's ?
> 
> 1) i915
>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/uc/selftest_guc_multi_lrc.c : 47
> 
>     if (i <= 1)
>       return ERR_PTR(0);
> 
>   from f9d72092cb490 
> 
> 2) trf7970a
>   drivers/nfc/trf7970a.c : 896
> 
>       trf->ignore_timeout =
>          !cancel_delayed_work(&trf->timeout_work);
>       trf->rx_skb = ERR_PTR(0);

I would guess that code is relying on rx_skb being valid pointer or ERR
(if (!IS_ERR(...))).

Best regards,
Krzysztof


  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-24 11:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-24  0:41 Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2023-09-24 11:41 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski [this message]
2023-09-24 12:16   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2023-09-25  4:18 ` Matthew Brost
2023-09-25  4:25   ` Randy Dunlap
2023-09-25 15:09     ` [Intel-gfx] " Jani Nikula

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