Even if it's not critical, the avoidance of checking the error code from devm_mutex_init() call today diminishes the point of using devm variant of it. Tomorrow it may even leak something. Add the missed check. Fixes: 938fd562b974 ("iio: adc: Add support for AD4000") Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/iio/adc/ad4000.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/ad4000.c b/drivers/iio/adc/ad4000.c index 6ea491245084..b4a23c97ee52 100644 --- a/drivers/iio/adc/ad4000.c +++ b/drivers/iio/adc/ad4000.c @@ -637,7 +637,9 @@ static int ad4000_probe(struct spi_device *spi) indio_dev->name = chip->dev_name; indio_dev->num_channels = 1; - devm_mutex_init(dev, &st->lock); + ret = devm_mutex_init(dev, &st->lock); + if (ret) + return ret; st->gain_milli = 1000; if (chip->has_hardware_gain) { -- 2.43.0.rc1.1336.g36b5255a03ac