[PATCH] mfd: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

[Christophe JAILLET]

if 'max8998_i2c_parse_dt_pdata() fails (when out of memory), a NULL
pointer dereference will occur in the error handling code.

Return directly instead.

Fixes: ee999fb3f17f("mfd: max8998: Add support for Device Tree")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/mfd/max8998.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mfd/max8998.c b/drivers/mfd/max8998.c
index 4c33b8063bc3..b1d3f70782d9 100644
--- a/drivers/mfd/max8998.c
+++ b/drivers/mfd/max8998.c
@@ -192,10 +192,8 @@ static int max8998_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c,
 
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OF) && i2c->dev.of_node) {
 		pdata = max8998_i2c_parse_dt_pdata(&i2c->dev);
-		if (IS_ERR(pdata)) {
-			ret = PTR_ERR(pdata);
-			goto err;
-		}
+		if (IS_ERR(pdata))
+			return PTR_ERR(pdata);
 	}
 
 	i2c_set_clientdata(i2c, max8998);
-- 
2.11.0