Returning a negative error code in a function with an unsigned return type is a pretty bad idea. It is probably worse when the justification for the change is "our static analisys tool found it".
Fixes: cf7de25878a1 ("cppc_cpufreq: Fix possible null pointer dereference") Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier maz@kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" rafael@kernel.org Cc: Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org --- drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c index b3d74f9adcf0b..cb93f00bafdba 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c @@ -747,7 +747,7 @@ static unsigned int cppc_cpufreq_get_rate(unsigned int cpu) int ret;
if (!policy) - return -ENODEV; + return 0;
cpu_data = policy->driver_data;