linux-kernel - [patch] ceph: checking for IS

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Date:	Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:24:44 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	"Yan, Zheng" <zyan@...hat.com>
Cc:	Sage Weil <sage@...hat.com>, Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>,
	ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] ceph: checking for IS_ERR instead of NULL

ceph_osdc_alloc_request() returns NULL on error, it never returns error
pointers.

Fixes: 5be0389dac66 ('ceph: re-send AIO write request when getting -EOLDSNAP error')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

diff --git a/fs/ceph/file.c b/fs/ceph/file.c
index d37efdd..a52cf9b 100644
--- a/fs/ceph/file.c
+++ b/fs/ceph/file.c
@@ -698,8 +698,8 @@ static void ceph_aio_retry_work(struct work_struct *work)
 
 	req = ceph_osdc_alloc_request(orig_req->r_osdc, snapc, 2,
 			false, GFP_NOFS);
-	if (IS_ERR(req)) {
-		ret = PTR_ERR(req);
+	if (!req) {
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		req = orig_req;
 		goto out;
 	}