RE: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 46/61] vfio: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check

Loktionov, Aleksandr
2026-03-11T09:25:45Z

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> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex@shazbot.org>
> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 46/61] vfio: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL
> over manual NULL check
>
> Prefer using IS_ERR_OR_NULL() over using IS_ERR() and a manual NULL
> check.
>
> Change generated with coccinelle.
>
> To: Alex Williamson <alex@shazbot.org>
> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <phahn-oss@avm.de>
> ---
> drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c index
> 742477546b15d4dbaf9ebcfb2e67627db71521e0..d71922dfde5885967398deddec3e
> 9e04b05adfec 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
> @@ -923,7 +923,7 @@ vfio_ioctl_device_feature_mig_device_state(struct
> vfio_device *device,
>
> /* Handle the VFIO_DEVICE_FEATURE_SET */
> filp = device->mig_ops->migration_set_state(device,
> mig.device_state);
> - if (IS_ERR(filp) || !filp)
> + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(filp))
> goto out_copy;
>
> return vfio_ioct_mig_return_fd(filp, arg, &mig);
>
> --
> 2.43.0

Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>