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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>,
	mst@redhat.com, grant.likely@linaro.org, rob.herring@calxeda.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Subject: [RFC] PTR_ERR: return 0 if ptr isn't an error value.
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 11:59:15 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mwr8sz9g.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1370080565.29224.29.camel@localhost.localdomain


Back in 2011, Uwe Kleine-König added the nonsensically-named
PTR_RET(), providing a means to avoid if() statements in code (commit 
fa9ee9c4b9).

Instead, just make PTR_ERR() return 0 if the pointer isn't an error
value.  This is harmless, since PTR_ERR() should have never been
passed a non-error value.  And GCC is usually smart enough to remove
the extra test if IS_ERR() has already been called.

My vmlinux text increased by 300 bytes:

	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
	6029452	 491628	2576384	9097464	 8ad0f8	vmlinux
	6029721	 491628	2576384	9097733	 8ad205	vmlinux.PTR_ERR

Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

diff --git a/include/linux/err.h b/include/linux/err.h
index f2edce2..621d859 100644
--- a/include/linux/err.h
+++ b/include/linux/err.h
@@ -24,14 +24,16 @@ static inline void * __must_check ERR_PTR(long error)
 	return (void *) error;
 }
 
-static inline long __must_check PTR_ERR(const void *ptr)
+static inline long __must_check IS_ERR(const void *ptr)
 {
-	return (long) ptr;
+	return IS_ERR_VALUE((unsigned long)ptr);
 }
 
-static inline long __must_check IS_ERR(const void *ptr)
+static inline long __must_check PTR_ERR(const void *ptr)
 {
-	return IS_ERR_VALUE((unsigned long)ptr);
+	if (IS_ERR(ptr))
+		return (long) ptr;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static inline long __must_check IS_ERR_OR_NULL(const void *ptr)
@@ -52,14 +54,7 @@ static inline void * __must_check ERR_CAST(const void *ptr)
 	return (void *) ptr;
 }
 
-static inline int __must_check PTR_RET(const void *ptr)
-{
-	if (IS_ERR(ptr))
-		return PTR_ERR(ptr);
-	else
-		return 0;
-}
-
+#define PTR_RET	PTR_ERR
 #endif
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_ERR_H */

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-03  2:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-01  9:56 [PATCH] virtio-mmio: Cocci spatch "ptr_ret.spatch" Thomas Meyer
2013-06-03  2:29 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2013-06-03  7:15   ` [RFC] PTR_ERR: return 0 if ptr isn't an error value Uwe Kleine-König
2013-06-08 21:07     ` Julia Lawall
2013-06-13  4:37       ` Rusty Russell
2013-06-13  7:30         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-06-13  7:56           ` Julia Lawall
2013-06-16  2:44             ` Rusty Russell
2013-06-16  4:42               ` [PATCH 1/9] PTR_RET is now PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO Rusty Russell
2013-06-16  4:42                 ` [PATCH 2/9] PTR_RET is now PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(): Replace most Rusty Russell
2013-06-16  4:42                   ` Rusty Russell
2013-06-16  4:42                   ` Rusty Russell
2013-06-20  6:05                   ` David Miller
2013-06-20  6:05                     ` David Miller
2013-06-20  6:05                     ` David Miller
2013-06-25  7:47                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-06-25  7:47                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-06-25  7:47                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-06-16  4:42                 ` [PATCH 3/9] s390: Replace weird use of PTR_RET Rusty Russell
2013-06-17  5:03                   ` Heiko Carstens
2013-06-16  4:42                 ` [PATCH 4/9] acpi: " Rusty Russell
2013-06-16 11:55                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-06-16  4:42                 ` [PATCH 5/9] pinctrl: don't use PTR_RET() Rusty Russell
2013-06-16  4:42                 ` [PATCH 6/9] remoteproc: " Rusty Russell
2013-06-17  3:15                   ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2013-06-17  3:49                     ` Rusty Russell
2013-06-16  4:42                 ` [PATCH 7/9] staging/zcache: " Rusty Russell
2013-06-16  4:42                 ` [PATCH 8/9] x86: remove weird PTR_ERR() in do_debug Rusty Russell
2013-06-19 18:43                   ` [tip:x86/debug] x86: Remove " tip-bot for Rusty Russell
2013-06-16  4:42                 ` [PATCH 9/9] mm/oom_kill: remove weird use of ERR_PTR()/PTR_ERR() Rusty Russell
2013-06-16 18:11                   ` David Rientjes
2013-06-17  3:50                     ` Rusty Russell
2013-06-09  5:55     ` [RFC] PTR_ERR: return 0 if ptr isn't an error value Rusty Russell

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