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authorVladimir Zapolskiy <vz@mleia.com>2016-04-28 16:19:06 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-04-28 19:34:04 -0700
commit99f23c2cded85a377325aa9fd374ffa3d55d1088 (patch)
tree9bf18f1185d2c316ac58a2f9ca504c39c136b775
parentc2e7e00b715d3c65f301bec8559d6af4ef8098ab (diff)
downloadlinux-99f23c2cded85a377325aa9fd374ffa3d55d1088.tar.bz2
rapidio: fix potential NULL pointer dereference
The change fixes improper check for a returned error value by class_create() function, which on error returns ERR_PTR() value, thus the original check always results in a dead code on error path. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@mleia.com> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c b/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c
index 5d4d91846357..96168b819044 100644
--- a/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c
+++ b/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c
@@ -2669,9 +2669,9 @@ static int __init mport_init(void)
/* Create device class needed by udev */
dev_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, DRV_NAME);
- if (!dev_class) {
+ if (IS_ERR(dev_class)) {
rmcd_error("Unable to create " DRV_NAME " class");
- return -EINVAL;
+ return PTR_ERR(dev_class);
}
ret = alloc_chrdev_region(&dev_number, 0, RIO_MAX_MPORTS, DRV_NAME);