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| author | Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> | 2023-06-07 12:58:49 +0100 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2023-06-08 19:19:50 -0700 |
| commit | 05b606b8845213092b50a855ecf7211caa7c82fa (patch) | |
| tree | a7fba38dbd4be02fb3e00aee1b6fa97863d7b47a /drivers | |
| parent | 84e476b876d9164af4b965c97eee90fa88204b63 (diff) | |
net: pcs: lynx: change lynx_pcs_create() to return error-pointers
Change lynx_pcs_create() to return an error-pointer on failure to
allocate memory, rather than returning NULL. This allows the removal
of the conversion in lynx_pcs_create_fwnode() and
lynx_pcs_create_mdiodev().
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/pcs/pcs-lynx.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/pcs/pcs-lynx.c b/drivers/net/pcs/pcs-lynx.c index b8c66137e28d..c2d01da40430 100644 --- a/drivers/net/pcs/pcs-lynx.c +++ b/drivers/net/pcs/pcs-lynx.c @@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ static struct phylink_pcs *lynx_pcs_create(struct mdio_device *mdio) lynx = kzalloc(sizeof(*lynx), GFP_KERNEL); if (!lynx) - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); mdio_device_get(mdio); lynx->mdio = mdio; @@ -334,12 +334,6 @@ struct phylink_pcs *lynx_pcs_create_mdiodev(struct mii_bus *bus, int addr) pcs = lynx_pcs_create(mdio); - /* Convert failure to create the PCS to an error pointer, so this - * function has a consistent return value strategy. - */ - if (!pcs) - pcs = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); - /* lynx_create() has taken a refcount on the mdiodev if it was * successful. If lynx_create() fails, this will free the mdio * device here. In any case, we don't need to hold our reference @@ -363,12 +357,6 @@ struct phylink_pcs *lynx_pcs_create_fwnode(struct fwnode_handle *node) pcs = lynx_pcs_create(mdio); - /* Convert failure to create the PCS to an error pointer, so this - * function has a consistent return value strategy. - */ - if (!pcs) - pcs = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); - /* lynx_create() has taken a refcount on the mdiodev if it was * successful. If lynx_create() fails, this will free the mdio * device here. In any case, we don't need to hold our reference |