On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 02:05:27PM +0200, Christian Gromm wrote:
> This patch passes the error code returned by function
> alloc_chrdev_region(). It is needed to stop the module
> from hiding the actual cause of failure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gr...@microchip.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/most/aim-cdev/cdev.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/most/aim-cdev/cdev.c 
> b/drivers/staging/most/aim-cdev/cdev.c
> index 20e2839..48d97bf 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/most/aim-cdev/cdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/most/aim-cdev/cdev.c
> @@ -507,8 +507,9 @@ static int __init mod_init(void)
>       spin_lock_init(&ch_list_lock);
>       ida_init(&minor_id);
>  
> -     if (alloc_chrdev_region(&aim_devno, 0, 50, "cdev") < 0)
> -             return -ENOMEM;
> +     err = alloc_chrdev_region(&aim_devno, 0, 50, "cdev");
> +     if (err < 0)
> +             return err;

You forgot to clean up your idr structure :(

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