2.6.25-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us
know.
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From: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net>
In Linus' tree:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Flinux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e7...
We need to convert the error pointer from class_create(), else we'll return the
successful return code from register_chrdev() on failure.
Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c
@@ -574,8 +574,10 @@ static int __init i2c_dev_init(void)
goto out;
i2c_dev_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "i2c-dev");
- if (IS_ERR(i2c_dev_class))
+ if (IS_ERR(i2c_dev_class)) {
+ res = PTR_ERR(i2c_dev_class);
goto out_unreg_chrdev;
+ }
res = i2c_add_driver(&i2cdev_driver);
if (res)
--
--