From fa9ee9c4b9885dfdf8eccac19b8b4fc8a7c53288 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Uwe Kleine-König Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:34:05 -0700 Subject: include/linux/err.h: add a function to cast error-pointers to a return value MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit PTR_RET() can be used if you have an error-pointer and are only interested in the eventual error value, but not the pointer. Yields the usual 0 for no error, -ESOMETHING otherwise. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/err.h | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/err.h b/include/linux/err.h index 448afc12c78a..f2edce25a76b 100644 --- a/include/linux/err.h +++ b/include/linux/err.h @@ -52,6 +52,14 @@ static inline void * __must_check ERR_CAST(const void *ptr) return (void *) ptr; } +static inline int __must_check PTR_RET(const void *ptr) +{ + if (IS_ERR(ptr)) + return PTR_ERR(ptr); + else + return 0; +} + #endif #endif /* _LINUX_ERR_H */ -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151