[PATCH 03/12] staging: lustre: lclient: Use !x to check for kzalloc failure

Julia Lawall Julia.Lawall at lip6.fr
Sat Jun 20 16:59:01 UTC 2015


!x is more normal for kzalloc failure in the kernel.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression x;
statement S1, S2;
@@

x = kzalloc(...);
if (
- x == NULL
+ !x
 ) S1 else S2
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall at lip6.fr>

---
 drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lclient/lcommon_cl.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -u -p a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lclient/lcommon_cl.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lclient/lcommon_cl.c
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lclient/lcommon_cl.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lclient/lcommon_cl.c
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ struct lu_device *ccc_device_alloc(const
 	int rc;
 
 	vdv = kzalloc(sizeof(*vdv), GFP_NOFS);
-	if (vdv == NULL)
+	if (!vdv)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
 	lud = &vdv->cdv_cl.cd_lu_dev;



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