From e74783ec3cb981211689bd2cfd3248f8dc48ec01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:39:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] i2c-dev: Return correct error code on class_create() failure
We need to convert the error pointer from class_create(), else we'll return the
successful return code from register_chrdev() on failure.
Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
---
drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c
index af4491fa7e34..307d976c9b69 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c
@@ -583,8 +583,10 @@ static int __init i2c_dev_init(void)
goto out;
i2c_dev_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "i2c-dev");
- if (IS_ERR(i2c_dev_class))
+ if (IS_ERR(i2c_dev_class)) {
+ res = PTR_ERR(i2c_dev_class);
goto out_unreg_chrdev;
+ }
res = i2c_add_driver(&i2cdev_driver);
if (res)
--
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