Re: [PATCH] block: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)

From: Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
Date: Wed Jun 05 2019 - 14:28:19 EST


On 05.06.19 14:24, Kefeng Wang wrote:

diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.c b/block/blk-cgroup.c
index b97b479e4f64..1f7127b03490 100644
--- a/block/blk-cgroup.c
+++ b/block/blk-cgroup.c
@@ -881,7 +881,7 @@ int blkg_conf_prep(struct blkcg *blkcg, const struct blkcg_policy *pol,
blkg_free(new_blkg);
} else {
blkg = blkg_create(pos, q, new_blkg);
- if (unlikely(IS_ERR(blkg))) {
+ if (IS_ERR(blkg)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(blkg);
goto fail_unlock;
}


I think this cocci script should do such things automatically:

virtual patch
virtual context
virtual org
virtual report

@@
expression E;
@@
- unlikely(IS_ERR(E))
+ IS_ERR(E)


Do you already do it this way and have a cocci scrip on the way
to mainline ?


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