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authorRussell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>2023-06-07 12:58:49 +0100
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2023-06-08 19:19:50 -0700
commit05b606b8845213092b50a855ecf7211caa7c82fa (patch)
treea7fba38dbd4be02fb3e00aee1b6fa97863d7b47a /drivers/net/pcs/pcs-lynx.c
parent84e476b876d9164af4b965c97eee90fa88204b63 (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/net/pcs/pcs-lynx.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/pcs/pcs-lynx.c14
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