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Revision 24595346d79b6bd98a77d24c493e8490639788fc authored by Florian Fainelli on 29 May 2015, 17:29:46 UTC, committed by David S. Miller on 01 June 2015, 04:50:34 UTC 
net: dsa: Properly propagate errors from dsa_switch_setup_one
 
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 <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tip revision: 24595346d79b6bd98a77d24c493e8490639788fc authored by Florian Fainelli on 29 May 2015, 17:29:46 UTC
net: dsa: Properly propagate errors from dsa_switch_setup_one
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