[PATCH] drm/exynos: vidi: fix a wrong error return

[Andi Shyti]

Hi Inki,

On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 02:26:40AM +0200, Andi Shyti wrote:
> Hi Inki,
> 
> On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 09:04:07AM +0900, Inki Dae wrote:
> > Fix a wrong error return by dropping an error return.
> > 
> > When vidi driver is remvoed, if ctx->raw_edid isn't same as fake_edid_info
> > then only what we have to is to free ctx->raw_edid so that driver removing
> > can work correctly - it's not an error case.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Inki Dae <inki.dae at samsung.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_vidi.c | 2 --
> >  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_vidi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_vidi.c
> > index 4d56c8c799c5..f5e1adfcaa51 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_vidi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_vidi.c
> > @@ -469,8 +469,6 @@ static int vidi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >  	if (ctx->raw_edid != (struct edid *)fake_edid_info) {
> >  		kfree(ctx->raw_edid);
> >  		ctx->raw_edid = NULL;
> > -
> > -		return -EINVAL;
> 
> It doesn't look right to me, I think the correct patch should be:
> 
> -       if (ctx->raw_edid != (struct edid *)fake_edid_info) {
> -               kfree(ctx->raw_edid);
> -               ctx->raw_edid = NULL;
> -
> -               return -EINVAL;
> -       }
> -
> +       ctx->raw_edid = NULL;
> 
> because "ctx->raw_edid" points to a non allocated memory in the
> .data segment and you cannot free it.
> 
> A follow-up cleanup should be to remove the "const" from
> fake_edid_info because you are assigning its address to pointers
> (raw_edid), so that what's the point for having it const? You are
> just fooling the compiler :)

please ignore, this is what happens when reading patches at
2.26am, that a "!=" becomes "==". The patch is correct, still
some cleanups is needed here, though.

Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti at kernel.org>

Andi

PS I was actually sleeping and this woke me up :)

> Andi
> 
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	component_del(&pdev->dev, &vidi_component_ops);
> > -- 
> > 2.25.1