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From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] nui.c error handling
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 14:39:28 +0300 (EAT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0904081437400.32632@bicker> (raw)

platform_device_register_simple() returns ERR_PTR(), not NULL, if an error 
occurs.

Found by smatch (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git).  Compile tested.

regards,
dan carpenter

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>

--- orig/drivers/net/niu.c	2009-04-07 21:59:22.000000000 +0300
+++ devel/drivers/net/niu.c	2009-04-07 22:00:45.000000000 +0300
@@ -8757,7 +8757,7 @@
 
 	plat_dev = platform_device_register_simple("niu", niu_parent_index,
 						   NULL, 0);
-	if (!plat_dev)
+	if (IS_ERR(plat_dev))
 		return NULL;
 
 	for (i = 0; attr_name(niu_parent_attributes[i]); i++) {

             reply	other threads:[~2009-04-08 11:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-08 11:39 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2009-04-08 22:44 ` [patch] nui.c error handling David Miller

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