Subject: [RESEND PATCH 1/1] of: Make return types of to_of_node and of_fwnode_handle macros consistent

From: [email-masked] (Laurent Pinchart)
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 19:37:15 +0200

Hi Sakari,

Thank you for the patch.

On Thursday, 2 November 2017 11:59:18 EET Sakari Ailus wrote:
> (Fixed Mauro's e-mail.)
> 
> to_of_node() macro checks whether the fwnode_handle passed to it is not an
> OF node, and if so, returns NULL in order to be NULL-safe. Otherwise it
> returns the pointer to the OF node which the fwnode_handle contains.
> 
> The problem with returning NULL is that its type was void *, which
> sometimes matters. Explicitly return struct device_node * instead.
> 
> Make a similar change to of_fwnode_handle() as well.
> 
> Fixes: d20dc1493db4 ("of: Support const and non-const use for to_of_node()")
> Fixes: debd3a3b27c7 ("of: Make of_fwnode_handle() safer")
> Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <[email-masked]>

Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <[email-masked]>

> ---
> Hi Mauro,
> 
> Could you check whether this addresses the smatch issue with the xilinx
> driver?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>  include/linux/of.h | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/of.h b/include/linux/of.h
> index b240ed69dc96..0651231c115e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/of.h
> +++ b/include/linux/of.h
> @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ static inline bool is_of_node(const struct fwnode_handle
> *fwnode) is_of_node(__to_of_node_fwnode) ?			\
>  			container_of(__to_of_node_fwnode,		\
>  				     struct device_node, fwnode) :	\
> -			NULL;						\
> +			(struct device_node *)NULL;			\
>  	})
> 
>  #define of_fwnode_handle(node)						\
> @@ -169,7 +169,8 @@ static inline bool is_of_node(const struct fwnode_handle
> *fwnode) typeof(node) __of_fwnode_handle_node = (node);		\
>  									\
>  		__of_fwnode_handle_node ?				\
> -			&__of_fwnode_handle_node->fwnode : NULL;	\
> +			&__of_fwnode_handle_node->fwnode :		\
> +			(struct fwnode_handle *)NULL;			\
>  	})
> 
>  static inline bool of_have_populated_dt(void)

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart