Re: [PATCH] sound: fix check for error condition of register_chrdev()

[Takashi Iwai]

On Fri, 06 Nov 2015 23:56:05 +0100,
Alexey Khoroshilov wrote:
> 
> init_oss_soundcore() compares returned value of register_chrdev()
> with -1, while other error codes can be returned.
> 
> Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied.


Takashi

> ---
>  sound/sound_core.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sound/sound_core.c b/sound/sound_core.c
> index 11e953a1fa45..99b73c675743 100644
> --- a/sound/sound_core.c
> +++ b/sound/sound_core.c
> @@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ static void cleanup_oss_soundcore(void)
>  static int __init init_oss_soundcore(void)
>  {
>  	if (preclaim_oss &&
> -	    register_chrdev(SOUND_MAJOR, "sound", &soundcore_fops) == -1) {
> +	    register_chrdev(SOUND_MAJOR, "sound", &soundcore_fops) < 0) {
>  		printk(KERN_ERR "soundcore: sound device already in use.\n");
>  		return -EBUSY;
>  	}
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 
> 
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