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Re: [patch] wireless: ERR_PTR vs null

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On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 20:22 +0800, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> iwm_wdev_alloc() returns an ERR_PTR on failure and not null.  It also 
> prints its own dev_err() message so I removed that as well.
> 
> Compile tested only.  Sorry.  
> Found by smatch (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git).
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
-yi

> --- orig/drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/netdev.c	2009-07-24 09:56:49.000000000 +0300
> +++ devel/drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/netdev.c	2009-07-24 09:57:31.000000000 +0300
> @@ -106,10 +106,8 @@
>  	int ret = 0;
>  
>  	wdev = iwm_wdev_alloc(sizeof_bus, dev);
> -	if (!wdev) {
> -		dev_err(dev, "no memory for wireless device instance\n");
> -		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> -	}
> +	if (IS_ERR(wdev))
> +		return wdev;
>  
>  	iwm = wdev_to_iwm(wdev);
>  	iwm->bus_ops = if_ops;

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