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/) // <smpl> @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 ) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kgugala · Sep 23, 2009 · 72445af · 72445af
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Showing 1 changed file with 1 addition and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1307.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1307.c
@@ -896,8 +896,7 @@ static int __devinit ds1307_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
 	return 0;
 
 exit_irq:
-	if (ds1307->rtc)
-		rtc_device_unregister(ds1307->rtc);
+	rtc_device_unregister(ds1307->rtc);
 exit_free:
 	kfree(ds1307);
 	return err;