drivers/video: bad error test before a dereference

Author: Julien Brunel <brunel@diku.dk>

The error test that follows the call to backlight_device_register semms
not to concern the right variable.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is
as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
// 
@def0@
expression x;
position p0;
@@
x@p0 = backlight_device_register(...)

@protected@
expression def0.x,E;
position def0.p0;
position p;
statement S;
@@
x@p0
... when != x = E
if (!IS_ERR(x) && ...) {<... x@p ...>} else S

@unprotected@
expression def0.x;
identifier fld;
position def0.p0;
position p != protected.p;
@@
x@p0
... when != x = E
* x@p->fld
// 

Signed-off-by: Julien Brunel 
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall 
Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
---
 drivers/video/atmel_lcdfb.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/video/atmel_lcdfb.c b/drivers/video/atmel_lcdfb.c
index f8d0a57..9a577a8 100644
--- a/drivers/video/atmel_lcdfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/atmel_lcdfb.c
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ static void init_backlight(struct atmel_lcdfb_info *sinfo)
 
 	bl = backlight_device_register("backlight", &sinfo->pdev->dev,
 			sinfo, &atmel_lcdc_bl_ops);
-	if (IS_ERR(sinfo->backlight)) {
+	if (IS_ERR(bl)) {
 		dev_err(&sinfo->pdev->dev, "error %ld on backlight register\n",
 				PTR_ERR(bl));
 		return;
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