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/vgem/vgem_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vgem/vgem_drv.c
index c15bafb06665..f36c14729b55 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vgem/vgem_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vgem/vgem_drv.c
@@ -334,8 +334,8 @@ static int __init vgem_init(void)
         int ret;
 
         vgem_device = drm_dev_alloc(&vgem_driver, NULL);
-        if (!vgem_device) {
-                ret = -ENOMEM;
+        if (IS_ERR(vgem_device)) {
+                ret = PTR_ERR(vgem_device);
                 goto out;
         }