[PATCH] char: hvc: check for error case

Vasiliy Kulikov segooon at gmail.com
Mon Sep 13 04:57:14 EST 2010


hvc_alloc() may fail, if so exit from init() with error.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon at gmail.com>
---
 I cannot compile this driver at all, so it is not tested.

 drivers/char/hvc_tile.c |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hvc_tile.c b/drivers/char/hvc_tile.c
index c4efb55..7a84a05 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hvc_tile.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hvc_tile.c
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ console_initcall(hvc_tile_console_init);
 
 static int __init hvc_tile_init(void)
 {
-	hvc_alloc(0, 0, &hvc_tile_get_put_ops, 128);
-	return 0;
+	struct hvc_struct *s;
+	s = hvc_alloc(0, 0, &hvc_tile_get_put_ops, 128);
+	return IS_ERR(s) ? PTR_ERR(s) : 0;
 }
 device_initcall(hvc_tile_init);
-- 
1.7.0.4



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