Virtualization - Sep 2022 - [PATCH] jailhouse: Hold reference returned from of_find_xxx API

On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 5:02 AM Liang He <windhl at 126.com>
wrote:
> At 2022-09-16 07:29:06, "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa at
csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> >On 9/14/22 7:23 PM, Liang He wrote:
..
> >>  static inline bool jailhouse_paravirt(void)
> >>  {
> >> -    return of_find_compatible_node(NULL, NULL,
"jailhouse,cell");
> >> +    struct device_node *np = of_find_compatible_node(NULL, NULL,
"jailhouse,cell");
> >> +
> >> +    of_node_put(np);
> >> +
> >> +    return np;
> >>  }
> >
> >Thank you for the fix, but returning a pointer from a function with a
> >bool return type looks odd. Can we also fix that up please?
> >
>
> Thanks for your review, how about following patch:
>
> -       return of_find_compatible_node(NULL, NULL,
"jailhouse,cell");
> +       struct device_node *np = of_find_compatible_node(NULL, NULL,
"jailhouse,cell");
> +
> +       of_node_put(np);
> +
> +       return (np==NULL);
This will be opposite to the above. Perhaps you wanted

  return  !!np;

Also possible (but why?)

  return np ? true : false;

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko