Re: [PATCH 4/5] drivers/net/can: Correct NULL test

From: Oliver Hartkopp
Date: Mon Dec 28 2009 - 08:50:20 EST


Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

Thanks Julia!

I added Christian Pellegrin who is the author of this driver in CC.

An obvious copy/paste error :-)

Regards,
Oliver

Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

>
> Test the just-allocated value for NULL rather than some other value.
>
> The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression x,y;
> statement S;
> @@
>
> x = \(kmalloc\|kcalloc\|kzalloc\)(...);
> (
> if ((x) == NULL) S
> |
> if (
> - y
> + x
> == NULL)
> S
> )
> // </smpl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> drivers/net/can/mcp251x.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff -u -p a/drivers/net/can/mcp251x.c b/drivers/net/can/mcp251x.c
> --- a/drivers/net/can/mcp251x.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/can/mcp251x.c
> @@ -990,7 +990,7 @@ static int __devinit mcp251x_can_probe(s
> goto error_tx_buf;
> }
> priv->spi_rx_buf = kmalloc(SPI_TRANSFER_BUF_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!priv->spi_tx_buf) {
> + if (!priv->spi_rx_buf) {
> ret = -ENOMEM;
> goto error_rx_buf;
> }
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