Re: [PATCH 03/61] ceph: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check

From: Viacheslav Dubeyko

Date: Tue Mar 10 2026 - 14:18:37 EST


On Tue, 2026-03-10 at 12:48 +0100, Philipp Hahn wrote:
> Prefer using IS_ERR_OR_NULL() over using IS_ERR() and a manual NULL
> check.
>
> Change generated with coccinelle.
>
> To: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Alex Markuze <amarkuze@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: ceph-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <phahn-oss@xxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/ceph/dir.c | 2 +-
> fs/ceph/snap.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ceph/dir.c b/fs/ceph/dir.c
> index 86d7aa594ea99335af3e91a95c0a418fdc1b8a8a..934250748ae4fd4c148fd27bdf91175047c2877d 100644
> --- a/fs/ceph/dir.c
> +++ b/fs/ceph/dir.c
> @@ -889,7 +889,7 @@ int ceph_handle_notrace_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
> {
> struct dentry *result = ceph_lookup(dir, dentry, 0);
>
> - if (result && !IS_ERR(result)) {
> + if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(result)) {
> /*
> * We created the item, then did a lookup, and found
> * it was already linked to another inode we already
> diff --git a/fs/ceph/snap.c b/fs/ceph/snap.c
> index 52b4c2684f922bfed39550311e793bfe3622cd26..528ad581be160713f91416115659e2dc6f259576 100644
> --- a/fs/ceph/snap.c
> +++ b/fs/ceph/snap.c
> @@ -902,7 +902,7 @@ int ceph_update_snap_trace(struct ceph_mds_client *mdsc,
> bad:
> err = -EIO;
> fail:
> - if (realm && !IS_ERR(realm))
> + if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(realm))
> ceph_put_snap_realm(mdsc, realm);
> if (first_realm)
> ceph_put_snap_realm(mdsc, first_realm);

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko <Slava.Dubeyko@xxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Slava.