Merge tag 'driver-core-4.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the driver core patchset for 4.18-rc1.

  The large chunk of these are firmware core documentation and api
  updates. Nothing major there, just better descriptions for others to
  be able to understand the firmware code better. There's also a user
  for a new firmware api call.

  Other than that, there are some minor updates for debugfs, kernfs, and
  the driver core itself.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'driver-core-4.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (23 commits)
  driver core: hold dev's parent lock when needed
  driver-core: return EINVAL error instead of BUG_ON()
  driver core: add __printf verification to device_create_groups_vargs
  mm: memory_hotplug: use put_device() if device_register fail
  base: core: fix typo 'can by' to 'can be'
  debugfs: inode: debugfs_create_dir uses mode permission from parent
  debugfs: Re-use kstrtobool_from_user()
  Documentation: clarify firmware_class provenance and why we can't rename the module
  Documentation: remove stale firmware API reference
  Documentation: fix few typos and clarifications for the firmware loader
  ath10k: re-enable the firmware fallback mechanism for testmode
  ath10k: use firmware_request_nowarn() to load firmware
  firmware: add firmware_request_nowarn() - load firmware without warnings
  firmware_loader: make firmware_fallback_sysfs() print more useful
  firmware_loader: move kconfig FW_LOADER entries to its own file
  firmware_loader: replace ---help--- with help
  firmware_loader: enhance Kconfig documentation over FW_LOADER
  firmware_loader: document firmware_sysfs_fallback()
  firmware: rename fw_sysfs_fallback to firmware_fallback_sysfs()
  firmware: use () to terminate kernel-doc function names
  ...

drivers/base/core.c

@@ -1487,7 +1487,7 @@ class_dir_create_and_add(struct class *class, struct kobject *parent_kobj)
 
 	dir = kzalloc(sizeof(*dir), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!dir)
-		return NULL;
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
 	dir->class = class;
 	kobject_init(&dir->kobj, &class_dir_ktype);
@@ -1497,7 +1497,7 @@ class_dir_create_and_add(struct class *class, struct kobject *parent_kobj)
 	retval = kobject_add(&dir->kobj, parent_kobj, "%s", class->name);
 	if (retval < 0) {
 		kobject_put(&dir->kobj);
-		return NULL;
+		return ERR_PTR(retval);
 	}
 	return &dir->kobj;
 }
@@ -1804,6 +1804,10 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
 
 	parent = get_device(dev->parent);
 	kobj = get_device_parent(dev, parent);
+	if (IS_ERR(kobj)) {
+		error = PTR_ERR(kobj);
+		goto parent_error;
+	}
 	if (kobj)
 		dev->kobj.parent = kobj;
 
@@ -1902,6 +1906,7 @@ done:
 	kobject_del(&dev->kobj);
  Error:
 	cleanup_glue_dir(dev, glue_dir);
+parent_error:
 	put_device(parent);
 name_error:
 	kfree(dev->p);
@@ -2426,7 +2431,7 @@ static void device_create_release(struct device *dev)
 	kfree(dev);
 }
 
-static struct device *
+static __printf(6, 0) struct device *
 device_create_groups_vargs(struct class *class, struct device *parent,
 			   dev_t devt, void *drvdata,
 			   const struct attribute_group **groups,
@@ -2704,7 +2709,7 @@ static int device_move_class_links(struct device *dev,
 /**
  * device_move - moves a device to a new parent
  * @dev: the pointer to the struct device to be moved
- * @new_parent: the new parent of the device (can by NULL)
+ * @new_parent: the new parent of the device (can be NULL)
  * @dpm_order: how to reorder the dpm_list
  */
 int device_move(struct device *dev, struct device *new_parent,
@@ -2721,6 +2726,11 @@ int device_move(struct device *dev, struct device *new_parent,
 	device_pm_lock();
 	new_parent = get_device(new_parent);
 	new_parent_kobj = get_device_parent(dev, new_parent);
+	if (IS_ERR(new_parent_kobj)) {
+		error = PTR_ERR(new_parent_kobj);
+		put_device(new_parent);
+		goto out;
+	}
 
 	pr_debug("device: '%s': %s: moving to '%s'\n", dev_name(dev),
 		 __func__, new_parent ? dev_name(new_parent) : "<NULL>");