From: Zhouyi Zhou <yizhouzhou@ict.ac.cn>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 08:06:43 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: snsc: check return value of class_create
X-Git-Tag: v4.9-rc1~149^2~41
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c1e8ad231141be21471d2cc624773eb5250c07b3;p=karo-tx-linux.git

snsc: check return value of class_create

	 return value of class_create should be considered in
module init function.

Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/char/snsc.c b/drivers/char/snsc.c
index 94006f9c2e43..10e56323f390 100644
--- a/drivers/char/snsc.c
+++ b/drivers/char/snsc.c
@@ -385,13 +385,18 @@ scdrv_init(void)
 
 	event_nasid = ia64_sn_get_console_nasid();
 
+	snsc_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, SYSCTL_BASENAME);
+	if (IS_ERR(snsc_class)) {
+		printk("%s: failed to allocate class\n", __func__);
+		return PTR_ERR(snsc_class);
+	}
+
 	if (alloc_chrdev_region(&first_dev, 0, num_cnodes,
 				SYSCTL_BASENAME) < 0) {
 		printk("%s: failed to register SN system controller device\n",
 		       __func__);
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
-	snsc_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, SYSCTL_BASENAME);
 
 	for (cnode = 0; cnode < num_cnodes; cnode++) {
 			geoid = cnodeid_get_geoid(cnode);