Sep 17 2013

drm/msm: Odd PTR_ERR usage 

Author: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>

The variable priv->kms is not initialized yet.

Found by "scripts/coccinelle/tests/odd_ptr_err.cocci".
PTR_ERR should access the value just tested by IS_ERR.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer 

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c
index 008d772..fe03f9c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ static int msm_load(struct drm_device *dev, unsigned long flags)
 		 * imx drm driver on iMX5
 		 */
 		dev_err(dev->dev, "failed to load kms\n");
-		ret = PTR_ERR(priv->kms);
+		ret = PTR_ERR(kms);
 		goto fail;
 	}

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