On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 19:07 -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
>     tty: serial: vt8500: fix return value check in vt8500_serial_probe()
> 
> to my tty git tree which can be found at
>     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git
> in the tty-linus branch.
> 
> The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
> (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
> 
> The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
> next -rc kernel release.
> 
> If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
> 
> 
> >From a6dd114e16cbc4410049a90a8a67b967333d108d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Wei Yongjun <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 05:10:44 -0500
> Subject: tty: serial: vt8500: fix return value check in vt8500_serial_probe()
> 
> In case of error, function of_clk_get() returns ERR_PTR()
> and never returns NULL. The NULL test in the return value
> check should be replaced with IS_ERR().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Tony Prisk <[email protected]>
> Cc: stable <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/vt8500_serial.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/vt8500_serial.c 
> b/drivers/tty/serial/vt8500_serial.c
> index 8fd1814..d5ed9f6 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/vt8500_serial.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/vt8500_serial.c
> @@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ static int vt8500_serial_probe(struct platform_device 
> *pdev)
>       vt8500_port->uart.flags = UPF_IOREMAP | UPF_BOOT_AUTOCONF;
>  
>       vt8500_port->clk = of_clk_get(pdev->dev.of_node, 0);
> -     if (vt8500_port->clk) {
> +     if (!IS_ERR(vt8500_port->clk)) {
>               vt8500_port->uart.uartclk = clk_get_rate(vt8500_port->clk);
>       } else {
>               /* use the default of 24Mhz if not specified and warn */

This patch is going to cause some kind of mess with the patch series I
already sent which alters/removes the same code. Not sure how big a
problem, or how long this patch has been around for.

Regards
Tony P

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