# \[PATCH\] docs: pin-control: Fix error path for control state example

- From: Niklas Söderlund \<niklas.soderlund+renesas@ragnatech.se\>
- Date: 2021-03-28 16:49:55 
- List: linux-doc
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-doc/2021/03/8513064
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-doc/2021/03/8513064/t.md

```text
The error is constructed using the wrong variable.

Signed-off-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund+renesas@ragnatech.se>
---
 Documentation/driver-api/pin-control.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/pin-control.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/pin-control.rst
index c905b273e8331e8a..e2474425fb0c2ba6 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/pin-control.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/pin-control.rst
@@ -1235,7 +1235,7 @@ default state like this::
 		foo->s = pinctrl_lookup_state(foo->p, PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT);
 		if (IS_ERR(foo->s)) {
 			/* FIXME: clean up "foo" here */
-			return PTR_ERR(s);
+			return PTR_ERR(foo->s);
 		}
 
 		ret = pinctrl_select_state(foo->s);
-- 
2.31.1

```
