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Date:	Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:48:15 +0200
From:	Mathieu Souchaud <mattieu.souchaud@...e.fr>
To:	tony.luck@...el.com, bp@...en8.de, tglx@...utronix.de,
	mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-edac@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Mathieu Souchaud <mattieu.souchaud@...e.fr>
Subject: [PATCH] x86/mce: Check misc_register() return code.

The current code does not check the return from misc_register() so set
the return variable with the return code of misc_register.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Souchaud <mattieu.souchaud@...e.fr>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index 68317c8..45fb7aa 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -2462,7 +2462,7 @@ static __init int mcheck_init_device(void)
 	cpu_notifier_register_done();
 
 	/* register character device /dev/mcelog */
-	misc_register(&mce_chrdev_device);
+	err = misc_register(&mce_chrdev_device);
 
 	return err;
 }
-- 
1.7.9.5

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