From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: simran singhal Subject: [PATCH 4/5] netfilter: nfnetlink: Clean up tests if NULL returned on failure Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 14:14:38 +0530 Message-ID: <1490085879-1827-5-git-send-email-singhalsimran0@gmail.com> References: <1490085879-1827-1-git-send-email-singhalsimran0@gmail.com> Cc: kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu, davem@davemloft.net, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com To: pablo@netfilter.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1490085879-1827-1-git-send-email-singhalsimran0@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org Some functions like kmalloc/kzalloc return NULL on failure. When NULL represents failure, !x is commonly used. This was done using Coccinelle: @@ expression *e; identifier l1; @@ e = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\|devm_kzalloc\)(...); ... - e == NULL + !e Signed-off-by: simran singhal --- --This is my contribution to the netfilter project of Outreachy Round 14. net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c index 68eda920..c39f16c 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ static int nfnl_err_add(struct list_head *list, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err) struct nfnl_err *nfnl_err; nfnl_err = kmalloc(sizeof(struct nfnl_err), GFP_KERNEL); - if (nfnl_err == NULL) + if (!nfnl_err) return -ENOMEM; nfnl_err->nlh = nlh; -- 2.7.4