linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs/ubifs: Use an IS_ERR test rather than a NULL test

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Date:	Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:35:14 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...radead.org>
To:	Julien Brunel <brunel@...u.dk>
Cc:	linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/ubifs: Use an IS_ERR test rather than a NULL test

On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 11:08 +0200, Julien Brunel wrote:
> In case of error, the function kthread_create returns an ERR pointer,
> but never returns a NULL pointer. So a NULL test that comes before an
> IS_ERR test should be deleted.
> 
> The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
> (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

Pushed to ubifs-2.6.git, thanks.

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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

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