linux-kernel - [PATCH] net: ethernet: toshiba: ps3_gelic_net.c: Cleaning up a check on a memory allocation

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Date:	Sat,  7 Jun 2014 12:22:08 +0200
From:	Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se>
To:	Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se>,
	cbe-oss-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: ethernet: toshiba: ps3_gelic_net.c:  Cleaning up a check on a memory allocation

A check on a memory allocation is checked incorrectly.

This was partly found using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.

Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/ps3_gelic_net.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/ps3_gelic_net.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/ps3_gelic_net.c
index d899d00..bb79928 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/ps3_gelic_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/ps3_gelic_net.c
@@ -1561,7 +1561,7 @@ static struct gelic_card *gelic_alloc_card_net(struct net_device **netdev)
 	 * alloc netdev
 	 */
 	*netdev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(struct gelic_port));
-	if (!netdev) {
+	if (!*netdev) {
 		kfree(card->unalign);
 		return NULL;
 	}
-- 
1.7.10.4

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