Return a negative error code on failure. A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ identifier ret; expression e1,e2; @@ ( if (\(ret < 0\|ret != 0\)) { ... return ret; } | ret = 0 ) ... when != ret = e1 when != &ret *if(...) { ... when != ret = e2 when forall return ret; } // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/radio/si4713/si4713.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/radio/si4713/si4713.c b/drivers/media/radio/si4713/si4713.c index c90004d..c4e1d6c 100644 --- a/drivers/media/radio/si4713/si4713.c +++ b/drivers/media/radio/si4713/si4713.c @@ -1615,8 +1615,10 @@ static int si4713_probe(struct i2c_client *client, return 0; si4713_pdev = platform_device_alloc("radio-si4713", -1); - if (!si4713_pdev) + if (!si4713_pdev) { + rval = -ENOMEM; goto put_main_pdev; + } si4713_pdev_pdata.subdev = client; rval = platform_device_add_data(si4713_pdev, &si4713_pdev_pdata, -- 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