4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 8128a31eaadbcdfa37774bbd28f3f00bac69996a upstream. c2port_device_register() never returns NULL, it uses error pointers. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170412083321.GC3250@mwanda Fixes: 65131cd52b9e ("c2port: add c2port support for Eurotech Duramar 2150") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/misc/c2port/c2port-duramar2150.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/misc/c2port/c2port-duramar2150.c +++ b/drivers/misc/c2port/c2port-duramar2150.c @@ -129,8 +129,8 @@ static int __init duramar2150_c2port_ini duramar2150_c2port_dev = c2port_device_register("uc", &duramar2150_c2port_ops, NULL); - if (!duramar2150_c2port_dev) { - ret = -ENODEV; + if (IS_ERR(duramar2150_c2port_dev)) { + ret = PTR_ERR(duramar2150_c2port_dev); goto free_region; }