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[PATCH] input: fix odd_ptr_err.cocci warnings

From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
Date: 2016-02-17 12:55:49
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On Wednesday 17 February 2016 07:29:05 Julia Lawall wrote:
PTR_ERR should access the value just tested by IS_ERR

Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/tests/odd_ptr_err.cocci

Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <redacted>
---

I haven't checked the context in detail. There can be false positives,
when it is the call to IS_ERR that is wrong.

tree:   https://github.com/Broadcom/arm64-linux iproc-tsc-v2
head:   ef32cf1baeb934bfcdf7c9eb8ad345aae266cde5
commit: c3afc7a1c330ce452c52e2183a23b2ab9f70bd4a [2/3] input: syscon
support in bcm_iproc_tsc driver

Please take the patch only if it's a positive warning. Thanks!
Looks correct to me

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
                if (IS_ERR(priv->regmap)) {
-                       error = PTR_ERR(priv->regs);
+                       error = PTR_ERR(priv->regmap);
I think this could have been avoided using

		error = PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(priv->regmap);
		if (error) {
			...

	Arnd
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