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SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 2/3] clk: introduce the common clock framework
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@ti.com> wrote:
> On Friday 16 March 2012 11:41 AM, Mike Turquette wrote:
>> +/*
>> + * calculate the new rates returning the topmost clock that has to be
>> + * changed.
>> + */
>> +static struct clk *clk_calc_new_rates(struct clk *clk, unsigned long
>> rate)
>> +{
>> +       struct clk *top = clk;
>> +       unsigned long best_parent_rate = clk->parent->rate;
>
>
> Shouldn't you check for a valid parent before dereferencing it? A
> clk_set_rate() on a root clock might throw up some issues otherwise.

Yes, the clk_calc_new_rates code assumes a valid parent pointer in
several locations. Thanks for the catch. Will roll into my fixes
series.

Regards,
Mike
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