Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > linux.kernel > #1376158

[PATCH] rtc: stmp3xxx: check for failure

From Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH] rtc: stmp3xxx: check for failure
Date 2016-04-11 18:40 +0200
Message-ID <rmN2y-py-15@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
Organization linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw


stmp3xxx_wdt_register() can fail as platform_device_alloc() or
platform_device_add() can fail. Lets check for the return value from
both platform_device_alloc() and platform_device_add() and return the
error value accordingly which is now propagated from probe.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk>
---
 drivers/rtc/rtc-stmp3xxx.c | 19 ++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-stmp3xxx.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-stmp3xxx.c
index ca54d03..e02e827 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-stmp3xxx.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-stmp3xxx.c
@@ -105,20 +105,22 @@ static struct stmp3xxx_wdt_pdata wdt_pdata = {
 	.wdt_set_timeout = stmp3xxx_wdt_set_timeout,
 };
 
-static void stmp3xxx_wdt_register(struct platform_device *rtc_pdev)
+static int stmp3xxx_wdt_register(struct platform_device *rtc_pdev)
 {
 	struct platform_device *wdt_pdev =
 		platform_device_alloc("stmp3xxx_rtc_wdt", rtc_pdev->id);
 
-	if (wdt_pdev) {
-		wdt_pdev->dev.parent = &rtc_pdev->dev;
-		wdt_pdev->dev.platform_data = &wdt_pdata;
-		platform_device_add(wdt_pdev);
-	}
+	if (!wdt_pdev)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	wdt_pdev->dev.parent = &rtc_pdev->dev;
+	wdt_pdev->dev.platform_data = &wdt_pdata;
+	return platform_device_add(wdt_pdev);
 }
 #else
-static void stmp3xxx_wdt_register(struct platform_device *rtc_pdev)
+static int stmp3xxx_wdt_register(struct platform_device *rtc_pdev)
 {
+	return 0;
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_STMP3XXX_RTC_WATCHDOG */
 
@@ -357,8 +359,7 @@ static int stmp3xxx_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		return err;
 	}
 
-	stmp3xxx_wdt_register(pdev);
-	return 0;
+	return stmp3xxx_wdt_register(pdev);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
-- 
1.9.1

Back to linux.kernel | Previous | Next | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

[PATCH] rtc: stmp3xxx: check for failure Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2016-04-11 18:40 +0200

csiph-web