Re: [PATCH v2] cpufreq: spear: Fix an IS_ERR() vs NULL bug in spear1340_set_cpu_rate()

Zhongqiu Han <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:10:53 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.janitors,gmane.linux.power-management.general,gmane.linux.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 7/14/2026 11:46 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The clk_get_parent() function doesn't return error pointers, it returns
> NULL on error.  Update the error checking to match.
> 
> Fixes: 420993221175 ("cpufreq: SPEAr: Add CPUFreq driver")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
> ---
> v2: fix subsystem prefix in subject

Reviewed-by: Zhongqiu Han <[email protected]>


> 
>   drivers/cpufreq/spear-cpufreq.c | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/spear-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/spear-cpufreq.c
> index 81a0780b2ebf..ffe5eda82f0b 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/spear-cpufreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/spear-cpufreq.c
> @@ -79,9 +79,9 @@ static int spear1340_set_cpu_rate(struct clk *sys_pclk, unsigned long newfreq)
>   	int ret = 0;
>   
>   	sys_clk = clk_get_parent(spear_cpufreq.clk);
> -	if (IS_ERR(sys_clk)) {
> +	if (!sys_clk) {
>   		pr_err("failed to get cpu's parent (sys) clock\n");
> -		return PTR_ERR(sys_clk);
> +		return -EINVAL;
>   	}
>   
>   	/* Set the rate of the source clock before changing the parent */


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Thx and BRs,
Zhongqiu Han