The semantic patch that makes this change is available in scripts/coccinelle/api/err_cast.cocci.
More information about semantic patching is available at http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer thomas@m3y3r.de ---
diff -u -p a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_prime.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_prime.c --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_prime.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_prime.c @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ struct drm_gem_object *nouveau_gem_prime /* need to attach */ attach = dma_buf_attach(dma_buf, dev->dev); if (IS_ERR(attach)) - return ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(attach)); + return ERR_CAST(attach);
sg = dma_buf_map_attachment(attach, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL); if (IS_ERR(sg)) {