From: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ortiz, Samuel" <samuel.ortiz@intel.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] wireless: ERR_PTR vs null
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:26:59 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1248658019.3747.94.camel@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0907241000250.11771@bicker>
On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 20:22 +0800, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> iwm_wdev_alloc() returns an ERR_PTR on failure and not null. It also
> prints its own dev_err() message so I removed that as well.
>
> Compile tested only. Sorry.
> Found by smatch (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git).
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Thanks,
-yi
> --- orig/drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/netdev.c 2009-07-24 09:56:49.000000000 +0300
> +++ devel/drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/netdev.c 2009-07-24 09:57:31.000000000 +0300
> @@ -106,10 +106,8 @@
> int ret = 0;
>
> wdev = iwm_wdev_alloc(sizeof_bus, dev);
> - if (!wdev) {
> - dev_err(dev, "no memory for wireless device instance\n");
> - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> - }
> + if (IS_ERR(wdev))
> + return wdev;
>
> iwm = wdev_to_iwm(wdev);
> iwm->bus_ops = if_ops;
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-27 1:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-25 12:22 [patch] wireless: ERR_PTR vs null Dan Carpenter
2009-07-25 12:46 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-07-27 1:26 ` Zhu Yi [this message]
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