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Re: [PATCH] thermal: ti-soc-thermal: fix error check

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On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 03:25:43PM -0800, Eduardo Valentin wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 06:24:41PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > We were only checking if data is not NULL but
> > ti_bandgap_get_sensor_data() can return NULL or ERR_PTR.
> 
> Do you have a fail case? Can you please send the logs too?
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-thermal-common.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-thermal-common.c b/drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-thermal-common.c
> > index b213a12..d76bb7c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-thermal-common.c
> > +++ b/drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-thermal-common.c
> > @@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ int ti_thermal_remove_sensor(struct ti_bandgap *bgp, int id)
> >  
> >  	data = ti_bandgap_get_sensor_data(bgp, id);
> >  
> > -	if (data && data->ti_thermal) {
> > +	if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(data) && data->ti_thermal) {
> 
> I don t really see the need for this as we always
> ti_bandgap_set_sensor_data with a valid pointer, never with a ERR PTR.
> So, it would be either valid or NULL.

ERR_PTR is not coming from ti_bandgap_set_sensor_data(). In
ti_bandgap_get_sensor_data() if ti_bandgap_validate() fails then it
returns ERR_PTR(ret). So just by checking for NULL we are not checking
for any error return from ti_bandgap_validate().

regards
sudip	
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[PATCH] thermal: ti-soc-thermal: fix error check Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2015-11-23 14:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] thermal: ti-soc-thermal: fix error check Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 00:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] thermal: ti-soc-thermal: fix error check Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 08:50 +0100

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