From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
To: Dave Penkler <dpenkler@gmail.com>
Cc: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Michael Rubin" <matchstick@neverthere.org>,
"Paul Retourné" <paul.retourne@orange.fr>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] gpib: Fix error code in ibonline()
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:17:49 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aSlMnaT1M104NJb2@stanley.mountain> (raw)
This accidentally returns 1 on error, but it should return negative
error codes.
Fixes: 9dde4559e939 ("staging: gpib: Add GPIB common core driver")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
---
drivers/gpib/common/iblib.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpib/common/iblib.c b/drivers/gpib/common/iblib.c
index 7cbb6a467177..b672dd6aad25 100644
--- a/drivers/gpib/common/iblib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpib/common/iblib.c
@@ -227,11 +227,10 @@ int ibonline(struct gpib_board *board)
#ifndef CONFIG_NIOS2
board->autospoll_task = kthread_run(&autospoll_thread, board,
"gpib%d_autospoll_kthread", board->minor);
- retval = IS_ERR(board->autospoll_task);
- if (retval) {
+ if (IS_ERR(board->autospoll_task)) {
dev_err(board->gpib_dev, "failed to create autospoll thread\n");
board->interface->detach(board);
- return retval;
+ return PTR_ERR(board->autospoll_task);
}
#endif
board->online = 1;
--
2.51.0
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