From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> Change the call to PTR_ERR to access the value just tested by IS_ERR. The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression e,e1; @@ ( if (IS_ERR(e)) { ... PTR_ERR(e) ... } | if (IS_ERR(e=e1)) { ... PTR_ERR(e) ... } | *if (IS_ERR(e)) { ... * PTR_ERR(e1) ... } ) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/crystalhd/crystalhd_lnx.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/crystalhd/crystalhd_lnx.c b/drivers/staging/crystalhd/crystalhd_lnx.c index 5909d8d..166203a 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/crystalhd/crystalhd_lnx.c +++ b/drivers/staging/crystalhd/crystalhd_lnx.c @@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ static int __devinit chd_dec_init_chdev(struct crystalhd_adp *adp) dev = device_create(crystalhd_class, NULL, MKDEV(adp->chd_dec_major, 0), NULL, "crystalhd"); if (IS_ERR(dev)) { - rc = PTR_ERR(crystalhd_class); + rc = PTR_ERR(dev); BCMLOG_ERR("failed to create device\n"); goto device_create_fail; } -- 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