From: Dan Carpenter Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 21:08:01 +0000 Subject: [patch] cosa: missing error code on failure in probe() Message-Id: <20150812210800.GB8068@mwanda> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Jan \"Yenya\" Kasprzak" Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org If register_hdlc_device() fails, the current code returns 0 but we should return an error code instead. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/cosa.c b/drivers/net/wan/cosa.c index 7193b73..848ea6a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wan/cosa.c +++ b/drivers/net/wan/cosa.c @@ -589,7 +589,8 @@ static int cosa_probe(int base, int irq, int dma) chan->netdev->base_addr = chan->cosa->datareg; chan->netdev->irq = chan->cosa->irq; chan->netdev->dma = chan->cosa->dma; - if (register_hdlc_device(chan->netdev)) { + err = register_hdlc_device(chan->netdev); + if (err) { netdev_warn(chan->netdev, "register_hdlc_device() failed\n"); free_netdev(chan->netdev);