linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 07/10] staging: exfat: Clean up return codes

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Date:   Mon, 4 Nov 2019 13:04:14 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/10] staging: exfat: Clean up return codes -
 FFS_SUCCESS

On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 08:45:03PM -0500, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_cache.c b/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_cache.c
> index 467b93630d86..28a67f8139ea 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_cache.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_cache.c
> @@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ u8 *FAT_getblk(struct super_block *sb, sector_t sec)
>  
>  	FAT_cache_insert_hash(sb, bp);
>  
> -	if (sector_read(sb, sec, &bp->buf_bh, 1) != FFS_SUCCESS) {
> +	if (sector_read(sb, sec, &bp->buf_bh, 1) != 0) {

It's better to just remove the "!= 0" double negative.  != 0 should be
used when we are talking about the number zero as in "cnt != 0" and for
"strcmp(foo, bar) != 0" where it means that "foo != bar".

regards,
dan carpenter