ida_simple_get may fail and return a negative error number. The fix checks its return value; if it fails, go to err_destroy. Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpio/gpio-exar.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-exar.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-exar.c index 0ecd2369c2ca..a09d2f9ebacc 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-exar.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-exar.c @@ -148,6 +148,8 @@ static int gpio_exar_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) mutex_init(&exar_gpio->lock); index = ida_simple_get(&ida_index, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL); + if (index < 0) + goto err_destroy; sprintf(exar_gpio->name, "exar_gpio%d", index); exar_gpio->gpio_chip.label = exar_gpio->name; -- 2.17.1