While shuffling some code around, dsa_switch_setup_one() was introduced,
and it was modified to return either an error code using ERR_PTR() or a
NULL pointer when running out of memory or failing to setup a switch.
This is a problem for its caler: dsa_switch_setup() which uses IS_ERR()
and expects to find an error code, not a NULL pointer, so we still try
to proceed with dsa_switch_setup() and operate on invalid memory
addresses. This can be easily reproduced by having e.g: the bcm_sf2
driver built-in, but having no such switch, such that drv->setup will
fail.
Fix this by using PTR_ERR() consistently which is both more informative
and avoids for the caller to use IS_ERR_OR_NULL().
Fixes: df197195a5248 ("net: dsa: split dsa_switch_setup into two functions")
Reported-by: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com>
---
net/dsa/dsa.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/dsa/dsa.c b/net/dsa/dsa.c
index e6f6cc3a1bcf..392e29a0227d 100644
--- a/net/dsa/dsa.c
+++ b/net/dsa/dsa.c
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ dsa_switch_setup(struct dsa_switch_tree *dst, int index,
*/
ds = kzalloc(sizeof(*ds) + drv->priv_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (ds == NULL)
- return NULL;
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
ds->dst = dst;
ds->index = index;
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ dsa_switch_setup(struct dsa_switch_tree *dst, int index,
ret = dsa_switch_setup_one(ds, parent);
if (ret)
- return NULL;
+ return ERR_PTR(ret);
return ds;
}
--
2.1.0
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