Re: [PATCH] NTB: ntb_hw_idt: replace IS_ERR_OR_NULL with regular NULL checks

From: Jon Mason
Date: Wed Oct 31 2018 - 16:34:48 EST


On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 05:13:06PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Both devm_kcalloc() and devm_kzalloc() return NULL on error. They
> never return error pointers.
>
> The use of IS_ERR_OR_NULL is currently applied to the wrong
> context.
>
> Fix this by replacing IS_ERR_OR_NULL with regular NULL checks.
>
> Fixes: bf2a952d31d2 ("NTB: Add IDT 89HPESxNTx PCIe-switches support")
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to my ntb branch

Thanks,
Jon

> ---
> drivers/ntb/hw/idt/ntb_hw_idt.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/ntb/hw/idt/ntb_hw_idt.c b/drivers/ntb/hw/idt/ntb_hw_idt.c
> index dbe72f1..a67ef23 100644
> --- a/drivers/ntb/hw/idt/ntb_hw_idt.c
> +++ b/drivers/ntb/hw/idt/ntb_hw_idt.c
> @@ -1105,9 +1105,9 @@ static struct idt_mw_cfg *idt_scan_mws(struct idt_ntb_dev *ndev, int port,
> }
>
> /* Allocate memory for memory window descriptors */
> - ret_mws = devm_kcalloc(&ndev->ntb.pdev->dev, *mw_cnt,
> - sizeof(*ret_mws), GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(ret_mws))
> + ret_mws = devm_kcalloc(&ndev->ntb.pdev->dev, *mw_cnt, sizeof(*ret_mws),
> + GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!ret_mws)
> return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>
> /* Copy the info of detected memory windows */
> @@ -2390,7 +2390,7 @@ static struct idt_ntb_dev *idt_create_dev(struct pci_dev *pdev,
>
> /* Allocate memory for the IDT PCIe-device descriptor */
> ndev = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*ndev), GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(ndev)) {
> + if (!ndev) {
> dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Memory allocation failed for descriptor");
> return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> }
> --
> 2.7.4
>