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>
diff --git a/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c b/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c
index 5d4d918..96168b8 100644
--- a/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c
+++ b/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c
@@ -2669,9 +2669,9 @@
/* 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);