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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] tracing: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR()
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 13:23:47 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160423102347.GA11136@mwanda> (raw)

tracing_map_elt_alloc() returns ERR_PTRs on error, never NULL.

Fixes: 08d43a5fa063 ('tracing: Add lock-free tracing_map')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

diff --git a/kernel/trace/tracing_map.c b/kernel/trace/tracing_map.c
index e0f1729..e7dfc5e 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/tracing_map.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/tracing_map.c
@@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ static struct tracing_map_elt *copy_elt(struct tracing_map_elt *elt)
 	unsigned int i;
 
 	dup_elt = tracing_map_elt_alloc(elt->map);
-	if (!dup_elt)
+	if (IS_ERR(dup_elt))
 		return NULL;
 
 	if (elt->map->ops && elt->map->ops->elt_copy)

             reply	other threads:[~2016-04-23 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-23 10:23 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2016-04-25 18:59 ` [patch] tracing: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR() Tom Zanussi
2016-04-26 13:41   ` Steven Rostedt

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