[PATCH] drm/msm: Odd PTR_ERR usage

Rob Clark robdclark at gmail.com
Tue Sep 17 17:08:15 PDT 2013


On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Thomas Meyer <thomas at m3y3r.de> wrote:
> The variable priv->kms is not initialized yet.
>
> Found by "scripts/coccinelle/tests/odd_ptr_err.cocci".
> PTR_ERR should access the value just tested by IS_ERR.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas at m3y3r.de>

thanks, I've got it queued up

BR,
-R

> ---
>
> diff -u -p a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c
> @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ static int msm_load(struct drm_device *d
>                  * imx drm driver on iMX5
>                  */
>                 dev_err(dev->dev, "failed to load kms\n");
> -               ret = PTR_ERR(priv->kms);
> +               ret = PTR_ERR(kms);
>                 goto fail;
>         }
>
>
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