In case of error, the function device_create() returns ERR_PTR() and
never returns NULL. The NULL test in the return value check should be
replaced with IS_ERR().

Fixes: 4a965c5f89de ("staging: add driver for Xilinx AXI-Stream FIFO v4.1 IP 
core")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongj...@huawei.com>
---
 drivers/staging/axis-fifo/axis-fifo.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/axis-fifo/axis-fifo.c 
b/drivers/staging/axis-fifo/axis-fifo.c
index 2a73302..51a081d 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/axis-fifo/axis-fifo.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/axis-fifo/axis-fifo.c
@@ -1006,10 +1006,10 @@ static int axis_fifo_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
        /* create driver file */
        fifo->device = device_create(axis_fifo_driver_class, NULL, fifo->devt,
                                     NULL, device_name);
-       if (!fifo->device) {
+       if (IS_ERR(fifo->device)) {
                dev_err(fifo->dt_device,
                        "couldn't create driver file\n");
-               rc = -ENOMEM;
+               rc = PTR_ERR(fifo->device);
                goto err_chrdev_region;
        }
        dev_set_drvdata(fifo->device, fifo);

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