include/linux/err.h: add a function to cast error-pointers to a return value
PTR_RET() can be used if you have an error-pointer and are only interested
in the eventual error value, but not the pointer. Yields the usual 0 for
no error, -ESOMETHING otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/err.h b/include/linux/err.h
index 448afc1..f2edce2 100644
--- a/include/linux/err.h
+++ b/include/linux/err.h
@@ -52,6 +52,14 @@
return (void *) ptr;
}
+static inline int __must_check PTR_RET(const void *ptr)
+{
+ if (IS_ERR(ptr))
+ return PTR_ERR(ptr);
+ else
+ return 0;
+}
+
#endif
#endif /* _LINUX_ERR_H */