drm: Don't swallow error codes in drm_dev_alloc()

There are many reasons other than ENOMEM that drm_dev_init() can
fail. Return ERR_PTR rather than NULL to be able to distinguish
these in the caller.

Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Signed-off-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20160921145919.13754-2-teg@jklm.no

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/drm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/drm.c
index 4b9f1c79cd7b..8ab47b502d83 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/drm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/drm.c
@@ -983,8 +983,8 @@ static int host1x_drm_probe(struct host1x_device *dev)
         int err;
 
         drm = drm_dev_alloc(driver, &dev->dev);
-        if (!drm)
-                return -ENOMEM;
+        if (IS_ERR(drm))
+                return PTR_ERR(drm);
 
         dev_set_drvdata(&dev->dev, drm);