linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] IB/usnic: delete unneeded IS

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Date:	Tue, 22 Dec 2015 10:29:03 -0500
From:	Dave Goodell <dgoodell@...co.com>
To:	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:	Christian Benvenuti <benve@...co.com>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
	Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
	Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Nelson Escobar <neescoba@...co.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/usnic: delete unneeded IS_ERR test

[copying Nelson too]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 09:48:59PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> kzalloc doesn't return ERR_PTR, so there is no need to test for it.
> 
> The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression x,e;
> @@
> 
> * x = kzalloc(...)
> ... when != x = e
> * IS_ERR_OR_NULL(x)
> // </smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>

Reviewed-by: Dave Goodell <dgoodell@...co.com>

-Dave
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