[Freedreno] [PATCH] drm/msm/dpu: Fix usage of ERR_PTR()

Zenghui Yu yuzenghui at huawei.com
Sat Jun 20 10:26:30 UTC 2020


ping for this obvious fix...

On 2020/5/28 21:08, Zenghui Yu wrote:
> ERR_PTR() is used in the kernel to encode an usual *negative* errno code
> into a pointer.  Passing a positive value (ENOMEM) to it will break the
> following IS_ERR() check.
> 
> Though memory allocation is unlikely to fail, it's still worth fixing.
> And grepping shows that this is the only misuse of ERR_PTR() in kernel.
> 
> Fixes: 25fdd5933e4c ("drm/msm: Add SDM845 DPU support")
> Signed-off-by: Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui at huawei.com>
> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_encoder.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_encoder.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_encoder.c
> index a1b79ee2bd9d..a2f6b688a976 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_encoder.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_encoder.c
> @@ -2173,7 +2173,7 @@ struct drm_encoder *dpu_encoder_init(struct drm_device *dev,
>   
>   	dpu_enc = devm_kzalloc(dev->dev, sizeof(*dpu_enc), GFP_KERNEL);
>   	if (!dpu_enc)
> -		return ERR_PTR(ENOMEM);
> +		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>   
>   	rc = drm_encoder_init(dev, &dpu_enc->base, &dpu_encoder_funcs,
>   			drm_enc_mode, NULL);
> 


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