Checking for NULL is incorrect as serial_base_ctrl_add() uses ERR_PTR(). Let's also pass any returned error along, there's no reason to translate all errors to -ENODEV. Fixes: 84a9582fd203 ("serial: core: Start managing serial controllers to enable runtime PM") Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes since v1: - Stop translating all errors to -ENODEV - There's no need to use IS_ERR_OR_NULL() as noted by Jiri --- drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c --- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c @@ -3342,8 +3342,8 @@ int serial_core_register_port(struct uart_driver *drv, struct uart_port *port) ctrl_dev = serial_core_ctrl_find(drv, port->dev, port->ctrl_id); if (!ctrl_dev) { new_ctrl_dev = serial_core_ctrl_device_add(port); - if (!new_ctrl_dev) { - ret = -ENODEV; + if (IS_ERR(new_ctrl_dev)) { + ret = PTR_ERR(new_ctrl_dev); goto err_unlock; } ctrl_dev = new_ctrl_dev; -- 2.41.0