Re: [PATCH 4/5] drivers/acpi: elide a non-zero test on a result thatis never 0

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Tue Mar 25 2008 - 04:51:43 EST


> > > And the return value of thermal_zone_device_register is also
> > misused.
> I guess you didn't fix this one, right?
> Len, please apply this patch.:)

Indeed, I did not fix this one. So your patch should be used in this
case.

julia

>
>
> Check the return value of thermal zone device registration correctly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/thermal.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/thermal.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/acpi/thermal.c
> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/thermal.c
> @@ -1125,7 +1125,7 @@ static int acpi_thermal_register_thermal
> tz->trips.active[i].flags.valid; i++, trips++);
> tz->thermal_zone = thermal_zone_device_register("ACPI thermal zone",
> trips, tz, &acpi_thermal_zone_ops);
> - if (!tz->thermal_zone)
> + if (IS_ERR(tz->thermal_zone))
> return -ENODEV;
>
> result = sysfs_create_link(&tz->device->dev.kobj,
>
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