From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> IS_ERR returns only 1 or 0. The callsite of setup_regulators expects a negative integer in an error case. Thus, PTR_ERR has to be used to extract it. The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression E,E1; @@ *E = IS_ERR(...) ... when != E = E1 *return E; // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/regulator/lp3971.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/regulator/lp3971.c b/drivers/regulator/lp3971.c index 7803a32..76d08c2 100644 --- a/drivers/regulator/lp3971.c +++ b/drivers/regulator/lp3971.c @@ -446,8 +446,8 @@ static int setup_regulators(struct lp3971 *lp3971, lp3971->rdev[i] = regulator_register(®ulators[id], lp3971->dev, pdata->regulators[i].initdata, lp3971); - err = IS_ERR(lp3971->rdev[i]); - if (err) { + if (IS_ERR(lp3971->rdev[i])) { + err = PTR_ERR(lp3971->rdev[i]); dev_err(lp3971->dev, "regulator init failed: %d\n", err); goto error; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html