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[PATCH v1 1/1] wwan: core: Avoid returning error pointer from wwan_create_dev()

From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Date: 2021-08-05 18:38:44
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Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest, wwan drivers · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds, Loic Poulain, Sergey Ryazanov

wwan_create_dev() is expected to return either valid pointer or NULL,
In some cases it might return the error pointer. Prevent this by converting
it to NULL after wwan_dev_get_by_parent().

Fixes: 9a44c1cc6388 ("net: Add a WWAN subsystem")
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/wwan/wwan_core.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wwan/wwan_core.c b/drivers/net/wwan/wwan_core.c
index 674a81d79db3..35e10a98e774 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wwan/wwan_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wwan/wwan_core.c
@@ -160,7 +160,9 @@ static struct wwan_device *wwan_create_dev(struct device *parent)
 
 	/* If wwandev already exists, return it */
 	wwandev = wwan_dev_get_by_parent(parent);
-	if (!IS_ERR(wwandev))
+	if (IS_ERR(wwandev))
+		wwandev = NULL;
+	else
 		goto done_unlock;
 
 	id = ida_alloc(&wwan_dev_ids, GFP_KERNEL);
-- 
2.30.2
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