Currently in the inkern.c code for IIO framework, the function
of_iio_channel_get_by_name() will return a non-NULL pointer when
it cannot find a channel using of_iio_channel_get() and when it
tries to search for 'io-channel-ranges' property and fails. This
is incorrect behaviour as the function which calls this expects
a NULL pointer for failure. This patch rectifies the issue.
Signed-off-by: Adam Thomson <Adam.Thomson.Opensource@diasemi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Cc: Stable@vger.kernel.org
                else if (name && index >= 0) {
                        pr_err("ERROR: could not get IIO channel %s:%s(%i)\n",
                                np->full_name, name ? name : "", index);
-                       return chan;
+                       return NULL;
                }
 
                /*
                 */
                np = np->parent;
                if (np && !of_get_property(np, "io-channel-ranges", NULL))
-                       break;
+                       return NULL;
        }
+
        return chan;
 }
 
                if (channel != NULL)
                        return channel;
        }
+
        return iio_channel_get_sys(name, channel_name);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(iio_channel_get);