RE: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 22/61] md: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check

Loktionov, Aleksandr
2026-03-11T09:19:37Z

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> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2026 12:49 PM
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> Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>; Mike Snitzer
> <snitzer@kernel.org>; Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>; Benjamin
> Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 22/61] md: 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: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
> To: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
> To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
> To: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
> Cc: dm-devel@lists.linux.dev
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <phahn-oss@avm.de>
> ---
> drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c | 2 +-
> drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 4 ++--
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c b/drivers/md/dm-cache-
> metadata.c index
> 57158c02d096ed38759d563bf27e7f1b3fe58ccc..32f7d25b83a181a30a78c663d48f
> 7882cb97f7b5 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c
> @@ -1819,7 +1819,7 @@ int dm_cache_metadata_abort(struct
> dm_cache_metadata *cmd)
> WRITE_UNLOCK(cmd);
> dm_block_manager_destroy(old_bm);
> out:
> - if (new_bm && !IS_ERR(new_bm))
> + if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(new_bm))
> dm_block_manager_destroy(new_bm);
>
> return r;
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c index
> 54823341c9fda46b2d8e13428cbd51f3edf642d5..05eae3d3c7df6baebd0b7a4219f7
> b6938f6e7f87 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
> @@ -2295,7 +2295,7 @@ static void crypt_free_tfms_aead(struct
> crypt_config *cc)
> if (!cc->cipher_tfm.tfms_aead)
> return;
>
> - if (cc->cipher_tfm.tfms_aead[0] && !IS_ERR(cc-
> >cipher_tfm.tfms_aead[0])) {
> + if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(cc->cipher_tfm.tfms_aead[0])) {
> crypto_free_aead(cc->cipher_tfm.tfms_aead[0]);
> cc->cipher_tfm.tfms_aead[0] = NULL;
> }
> @@ -2312,7 +2312,7 @@ static void crypt_free_tfms_skcipher(struct
> crypt_config *cc)
> return;
>
> for (i = 0; i < cc->tfms_count; i++)
> - if (cc->cipher_tfm.tfms[i] && !IS_ERR(cc-
> >cipher_tfm.tfms[i])) {
> + if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(cc->cipher_tfm.tfms[i])) {
> crypto_free_skcipher(cc->cipher_tfm.tfms[i]);
> cc->cipher_tfm.tfms[i] = NULL;
> }
>
> --
> 2.43.0

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