Re: [PATCH] net: cosa: fix error check return value of register_chrdev()

[Jan Kasprzak]

Acked-By: Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <kas@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

-Yenya

cgel.zte@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
: From: Lv Ruyi <lv.ruyi@xxxxxxxxxx>
: 
: If major equal 0, register_chrdev() returns error code when it fails.
: This function dynamically allocate a major and return its number on
: success, so we should use "< 0" to check it instead of "!".
: 
: Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@xxxxxxxxxx>
: Signed-off-by: Lv Ruyi <lv.ruyi@xxxxxxxxxx>
: ---
:  drivers/net/wan/cosa.c | 2 +-
:  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
: 
: diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/cosa.c b/drivers/net/wan/cosa.c
: index 23d2954d9747..1e5672019922 100644
: --- a/drivers/net/wan/cosa.c
: +++ b/drivers/net/wan/cosa.c
: @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ static int __init cosa_init(void)
:  		}
:  	} else {
:  		cosa_major = register_chrdev(0, "cosa", &cosa_fops);
: -		if (!cosa_major) {
: +		if (cosa_major < 0) {
:  			pr_warn("unable to register chardev\n");
:  			err = -EIO;
:  			goto out;
: -- 
: 2.25.1
: 

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