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The patch 23c7b54ca1cd: "PM / devfreq: Fix devfreq_add_device() when drivers are built as modules." leads to the following static checker warning:
drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c:1043 governor_store() warn: 'governor' can also be NULL
The reason is that the try_then_request_governor() function returns both error pointers and NULL. It should just return error pointers, so fix this by returning a ERR_PTR to the error intead of returning NULL.
Fixes: 23c7b54ca1cd ("PM / devfreq: Fix devfreq_add_device() when drivers are built as modules.") Reported-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Enric Balletbo i Serra enric.balletbo@collabora.com Reviewed-by: Chanwoo Choi cw00.choi@samsung.com Signed-off-by: MyungJoo Ham myungjoo.ham@samsung.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c index 0ae3de76833b7..839621b044f49 100644 --- a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c +++ b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c @@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ static struct devfreq_governor *find_devfreq_governor(const char *name) * if is not found. This can happen when both drivers (the governor driver * and the driver that call devfreq_add_device) are built as modules. * devfreq_list_lock should be held by the caller. Returns the matched - * governor's pointer. + * governor's pointer or an error pointer. */ static struct devfreq_governor *try_then_request_governor(const char *name) { @@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ static struct devfreq_governor *try_then_request_governor(const char *name) /* Restore previous state before return */ mutex_lock(&devfreq_list_lock); if (err) - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(err);
governor = find_devfreq_governor(name); }