If alloc_etherdev_mq() fails then return -ENOMEM instead of success. The "err = 0;" triggers an unused assignment now so remove that as well. Fixes: 953b94009377 ("staging: qlge: Initialize devlink health dump framework") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c index 2682a0e474bd..e11470910ef3 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c +++ b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c @@ -4549,7 +4549,7 @@ static int qlge_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, struct net_device *ndev = NULL; struct devlink *devlink; static int cards_found; - int err = 0; + int err; devlink = devlink_alloc(&qlge_devlink_ops, sizeof(struct qlge_adapter)); if (!devlink) @@ -4560,8 +4560,10 @@ static int qlge_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, ndev = alloc_etherdev_mq(sizeof(struct qlge_netdev_priv), min(MAX_CPUS, netif_get_num_default_rss_queues())); - if (!ndev) + if (!ndev) { + err = -ENOMEM; goto devlink_free; + } ndev_priv = netdev_priv(ndev); ndev_priv->qdev = qdev; -- 2.30.2