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From: Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula@nokia.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@suse.de
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, ext-jani.1.nikula@nokia.com
Subject: [PATCH] enclosure: fix error path - actually return ERR_PTR() on error
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:50:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1268401858-9213-1-git-send-email-ext-jani.1.nikula@nokia.com> (raw)

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula@nokia.com>

---

NOTE: I'm afraid I'm unable to test this; please consider this more a
bug report than a complete patch.
---
 drivers/misc/enclosure.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
index 1eac626..2979927 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ enclosure_component_register(struct enclosure_device *edev,
 
 	err = device_register(cdev);
 	if (err)
-		ERR_PTR(err);
+		return ERR_PTR(err);
 
 	return ecomp;
 }
-- 
1.6.5.2


             reply	other threads:[~2010-03-12 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-12 13:50 Jani Nikula [this message]
2010-03-12 22:14 ` James Bottomley

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