From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 08:35:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] switchtec: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR() Message-Id: <20170412083525.GF3250@mwanda> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Kurt Schwemmer , Logan Gunthorpe Cc: Stephen Bates , Bjorn Helgaas , linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org stuser_create() uses error pointers, it never returns NULL. Fixes: 74004262f329 ("MicroSemi Switchtec management interface driver") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/drivers/pci/switch/switchtec.c b/drivers/pci/switch/switchtec.c index fcde98161d9a..cc6e085008fb 100644 --- a/drivers/pci/switch/switchtec.c +++ b/drivers/pci/switch/switchtec.c @@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ static int switchtec_dev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) stdev = container_of(inode->i_cdev, struct switchtec_dev, cdev); stuser = stuser_create(stdev); - if (!stuser) + if (IS_ERR(stuser)) return PTR_ERR(stuser); filp->private_data = stuser;