[PATCH] block: cleanup various NULL pointer comparisons

From: Alone Dangal

Date: Fri Feb 27 2026 - 10:11:21 EST


Remove open-coded NULL comparisons to follow kernel coding style
guidelines. While at it, remove a trailing whitespace in blk-core.c.

Signed-off-by: Alone Dangal <yogeshdangal66@xxxxxxxxx>
---
block/badblocks.c | 2 +-
block/bio.c | 2 +-
block/blk-core.c | 4 ++--
block/blk-iolatency.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/badblocks.c b/block/badblocks.c
index ece64e76f..d409e6b6e 100644
--- a/block/badblocks.c
+++ b/block/badblocks.c
@@ -1374,7 +1374,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(badblocks_clear);
*/
void ack_all_badblocks(struct badblocks *bb)
{
- if (bb->page == NULL || bb->changed)
+ if (!bb->page || bb->changed)
/* no point even trying */
return;
write_seqlock_irq(&bb->lock);
diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index d80d5d268..e15f30a5c 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -762,7 +762,7 @@ static int __bio_alloc_cache_prune(struct bio_alloc_cache *cache,
unsigned int i = 0;
struct bio *bio;

- while ((bio = cache->free_list) != NULL) {
+ while ((bio = cache->free_list)) {
cache->free_list = bio->bi_next;
cache->nr--;
bio_free(bio);
diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 474700ffa..ae075a95b 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -635,7 +635,7 @@ static void __submit_bio(struct bio *bio)
blk_mq_submit_bio(bio);
} else if (likely(bio_queue_enter(bio) == 0)) {
struct gendisk *disk = bio->bi_bdev->bd_disk;
-
+
if ((bio->bi_opf & REQ_POLLED) &&
!(disk->queue->limits.features & BLK_FEAT_POLL)) {
bio->bi_status = BLK_STS_NOTSUPP;
@@ -695,7 +695,7 @@ static void __submit_bio_noacct(struct bio *bio)
*/
bio_list_init(&lower);
bio_list_init(&same);
- while ((bio = bio_list_pop(&bio_list_on_stack[0])) != NULL)
+ while ((bio = bio_list_pop(&bio_list_on_stack[0])))
if (q == bdev_get_queue(bio->bi_bdev))
bio_list_add(&same, bio);
else
diff --git a/block/blk-iolatency.c b/block/blk-iolatency.c
index 53e8dd2df..dbd951e8c 100644
--- a/block/blk-iolatency.c
+++ b/block/blk-iolatency.c
@@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ static void blkiolatency_timer_fn(struct timer_list *t)
* We scaled down but don't have a scale_grp, scale up and carry
* on.
*/
- if (lat_info->scale_grp == NULL) {
+ if (!lat_info->scale_grp) {
scale_cookie_change(iolat->blkiolat, lat_info, true);
goto next_lock;
}
--
2.53.0