[PATCH 5/5] staging: rtllib_wx: Clean up tests if NULL returned on failure

simran singhal singhalsimran0 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 10 05:07:39 UTC 2017


Some functions like kmalloc/kzalloc return NULL on failure.
When NULL represents failure, !x is commonly used.

This was done using Coccinelle:
@@
expression *e;
identifier l1;
@@

e = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\|devm_kzalloc\)(...);
...
- e == NULL
+ !e

Signed-off-by: simran singhal <singhalsimran0 at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c
index b1500ee..9f3824a 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ int rtllib_wx_set_encode(struct rtllib_device *ieee,
 		/* take WEP into use */
 		new_crypt = kzalloc(sizeof(struct lib80211_crypt_data),
 				    GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (new_crypt == NULL)
+		if (!new_crypt)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		new_crypt->ops = lib80211_get_crypto_ops("R-WEP");
 		if (!new_crypt->ops) {
@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ int rtllib_wx_set_encode_ext(struct rtllib_device *ieee,
 		lib80211_crypt_delayed_deinit(&ieee->crypt_info, crypt);
 
 		new_crypt = kzalloc(sizeof(*new_crypt), GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (new_crypt == NULL) {
+		if (!new_crypt) {
 			ret = -ENOMEM;
 			goto done;
 		}
-- 
2.7.4



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