From: Emil Goode <emilgoode@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:42:51 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: pps: return PTR_ERR on error in device_create
X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=668f06b9fb846ecedb73964ca5dd95ce441707be;p=~shefty%2Frdma-dev.git

pps: return PTR_ERR on error in device_create

We should return PTR_ERR if the call to the device_create function fails.
Without this patch we instead return the value from a successful call to
cdev_add if the call to device_create fails.

Signed-off-by: Emil Goode <emilgoode@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/pps/pps.c b/drivers/pps/pps.c
index 98fbe62694d..e771487132f 100644
--- a/drivers/pps/pps.c
+++ b/drivers/pps/pps.c
@@ -327,8 +327,10 @@ int pps_register_cdev(struct pps_device *pps)
 	}
 	pps->dev = device_create(pps_class, pps->info.dev, devt, pps,
 							"pps%d", pps->id);
-	if (IS_ERR(pps->dev))
+	if (IS_ERR(pps->dev)) {
+		err = PTR_ERR(pps->dev);
 		goto del_cdev;
+	}
 
 	pps->dev->release = pps_device_destruct;