The caller only cares about zero vs non-zero so this code actually works fine but we should be returning a negative error code instead of a valid pointer casted to int. Fixes: 554c0a3abf21 ("staging: Add rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/osdep_service.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/osdep_service.c index 02db59e8b593..aa16d1ab955b 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/osdep_service.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/osdep_service.c @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ static int isFileReadable(char *path) oldfs = get_fs(); set_fs(get_ds()); if (1!=readFile(fp, &buf, 1)) - ret = PTR_ERR(fp); + ret = -EINVAL; set_fs(oldfs); filp_close(fp, NULL); -- 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