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USB: drivers/usb/misc: Use an IS_ERR test rather than a NULL test

Author: Julien Brunel <brunel@diku.dk> In case of error, the function backlight_device_register returns an ERR pointer, but never returns a NULL pointer. So a NULL test that may come after a call to this function should be strengthened by an IS_ERR test. The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // @match_bad_null_test@ expression …

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