linux-kernel - Re: crypto: caam/qi - simplify error path for context allocation

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Date:   Fri, 20 Nov 2020 17:56:54 +1100
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@....com>
Cc:     Wang Qing <wangqing@...o.com>,
        Aymen Sghaier <aymen.sghaier@....com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org" <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: crypto: caam/qi - simplify error path for context allocation

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 11:21:46AM +0200, Horia Geantă wrote:
> 
> Wang Qing reports that IS_ERR_OR_NULL() should be matched with
> PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(), not PTR_ERR().
> 
> As it turns out, the error path always returns an error code,
> i.e. NULL is never returned.
> Update the code accordingly - s/IS_ERR_OR_NULL/IS_ERR.
> 
> Reported-by: Wang Qing <wangqing@...o.com>
> Signed-off-by: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@....com>
> ---
>  drivers/crypto/caam/caamalg_qi.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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