pps: return PTR_ERR on error in device_create
We should return PTR_ERR if the call to the device_create function fails.
Without this patch we instead return the value from a successful call to
cdev_add if the call to device_create fails.
Signed-off-by: Emil Goode <emilgoode@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/pps/pps.c b/drivers/pps/pps.c
index 98fbe62..e771487 100644
--- a/drivers/pps/pps.c
+++ b/drivers/pps/pps.c
@@ -327,8 +327,10 @@
}
pps->dev = device_create(pps_class, pps->info.dev, devt, pps,
"pps%d", pps->id);
- if (IS_ERR(pps->dev))
+ if (IS_ERR(pps->dev)) {
+ err = PTR_ERR(pps->dev);
goto del_cdev;
+ }
pps->dev->release = pps_device_destruct;