linux-kernel - [PATCH] rapidio: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

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Date:	Thu, 21 Apr 2016 23:05:04 +0300
From:	Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@...ia.com>
To:	Matt Porter <mporter@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] rapidio: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

The change fixes improper check for a returned error value by
class_create() function, which on error returns ERR_PTR() value,
thus the original check always results in a dead code on error path.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@...ia.com>
---
 drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c b/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c
index 5d4d918..96168b8 100644
--- a/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c
+++ b/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c
@@ -2669,9 +2669,9 @@ static int __init mport_init(void)
 
 	/* Create device class needed by udev */
 	dev_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, DRV_NAME);
-	if (!dev_class) {
+	if (IS_ERR(dev_class)) {
 		rmcd_error("Unable to create " DRV_NAME " class");
-		return -EINVAL;
+		return PTR_ERR(dev_class);
 	}
 
 	ret = alloc_chrdev_region(&dev_number, 0, RIO_MAX_MPORTS, DRV_NAME);
-- 
2.1.4