netdev - Re: [PATCH] netvsc: fix ptr

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Message-Id: <20170724.163258.1790925456750077892.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 24 Jul 2017 16:32:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     stephen@...workplumber.org
Cc:     fengguang.wu@...el.com, kbuild-all@...org, sthemmin@...rosoft.com,
        kys@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...rosoft.com,
        devel@...uxdriverproject.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netvsc: fix ptr_ret.cocci warnings

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 16:21:57 -0700

> On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 16:20:28 -0700 (PDT)
> David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> 
>> From: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
>> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 02:54:43 +0800
>> 
>> > drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c:737:8-14: WARNING: PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO can be used
>> > 
>> > 
>> >  Use PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO rather than if(IS_ERR(...)) + PTR_ERR
>> > 
>> > Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/api/ptr_ret.cocci
>> > 
>> > Fixes: 9749fed5d43d ("netvsc: use ERR_PTR to avoid dereference issues")
>> > CC: stephen hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
>> > Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>  
>> 
>> Applied to net-next.
> 
> That function is gone in the later patches.

I guess I'll deal with that when I apply that series or do a merge
then :-)