diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/ice.c b/drivers/soc/qcom/ice.c
index 85deb9ea4a68..2b592aa42941 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/qcom/ice.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/ice.c
@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ static struct qcom_ice *qcom_ice_create(struct device *dev,
 
 	if (!qcom_scm_ice_available()) {
 		dev_warn(dev, "ICE SCM interface not found\n");
-		return NULL;
+		return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP);
 	}
 
 	engine = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*engine), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ static struct qcom_ice *of_qcom_ice_get(struct device *dev)
 	struct device_node *node __free(device_node) = of_parse_phandle(dev->of_node,
 									"qcom,ice", 0);
 	if (!node)
-		return NULL;
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
 
 	pdev = of_find_device_by_node(node);
 	if (!pdev) {
@@ -698,8 +698,7 @@ static void devm_of_qcom_ice_put(struct device *dev, void *res)
  * phandle via 'qcom,ice' property to an ICE DT, the ICE instance will already
  * be created and so this function will return that instead.
  *
- * Return: ICE pointer on success, NULL if there is no ICE data provided by the
- * consumer or ERR_PTR() on error.
+ * Return: ICE pointer on success, ERR_PTR() on error.
  */
 struct qcom_ice *devm_of_qcom_ice_get(struct device *dev)
 {
@@ -710,7 +709,7 @@ struct qcom_ice *devm_of_qcom_ice_get(struct device *dev)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
 	ice = of_qcom_ice_get(dev);
-	if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(ice)) {
+	if (!IS_ERR(ice)) {
 		*dr = ice;
 		devres_add(dev, dr);
 	} else {