On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 06:32:15PM +0530, Amitoj Kaur Chawla wrote:
> Commit 3eced21a5afb ("staging: most: hdm-dim2: Replace request_irq
> with devm_request_irq") introduced the following static checker
> warning:
> drivers/staging/most/hdm-dim2/dim2_hdm.c:841 dim2_probe()
> error: 'dev->netinfo_task' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
>
> Remove the warning by returning PTR_ERR immediately rather than
> storing in a variable and returning at the end of the function
> since we do not need to free anything.
This patch is not about a warning.
This patch fixes the bug introduced in the previous patch that has
changed the control flow so that the error code returned by the
kthread_run was overwritten by the "ret = dim2_sysfs_probe" below.
regards
andy
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