ion_device_create() can fail and if it fails then it returns the error value in ERR_PTR.
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukher...@codethink.co.uk> --- drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_dummy_driver.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_dummy_driver.c b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_dummy_driver.c index 5678870..806e76b 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_dummy_driver.c +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_dummy_driver.c @@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ static int __init ion_dummy_init(void) int i, err; idev = ion_device_create(NULL); + if (IS_ERR(idev)) + return PTR_ERR(idev); heaps = kcalloc(dummy_ion_pdata.nr, sizeof(struct ion_heap *), GFP_KERNEL); if (!heaps) -- 1.9.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel