From: Julia Lawall Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:46:29 +0000 (-0700) Subject: drivers/rtc: correct error-handling code X-Git-Tag: v2.6.32-rc1~264 X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=72445af880dbcd41cffd0d7b78a8c74da093e9eb;p=linux-2.6-block.git drivers/rtc: correct error-handling code This code is not executed before ds1307->rtc has been successfully initialized to the result of calling rtc_device_register. Thus the test that ds1307->rtc is not NULL is always true. A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @match exists@ expression x, E; statement S1, S2; @@ x = rtc_device_register(...) ... when != x = E ( * if (x == NULL || ...) S1 else S2 | * if (x == NULL && ...) S1 else S2 ) // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Acked-by: Wolfram Sang Cc: David Brownell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1307.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1307.c index 47a93c022d91..eb99ee4fa0f5 100644 --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1307.c +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1307.c @@ -896,8 +896,7 @@ read_rtc: return 0; exit_irq: - if (ds1307->rtc) - rtc_device_unregister(ds1307->rtc); + rtc_device_unregister(ds1307->rtc); exit_free: kfree(ds1307); return err;