From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:03:00 +0000 Subject: [patch] [SCSI] target: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR Message-Id: <20110115140300.GC2721@bicker> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" Cc: James Bottomley , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org blkdev_get_by_path() returns an ERR_PTR() or error and it doesn't return a NULL. It looks like this bug would be easy to trigger by mistake. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c b/drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c index c6e0d75..3456135 100644 --- a/drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ static struct se_device *iblock_create_virtdevice( bd = blkdev_get_by_path(ib_dev->ibd_udev_path, FMODE_WRITE|FMODE_READ|FMODE_EXCL, ib_dev); - if (!(bd)) + if (IS_ERR(bd)) goto failed; /* * Setup the local scope queue_limits from struct request_queue->limits