On Oct 15, 2015, at 11:27 AM, Insu Yun <wuni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Since ib_alloc_device returns allocated memory address, not error, 
> it should be checked as IS_NULL, not IS_ERR_OR_NULL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Insu Yun <wuni...@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_main.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

There's a typo in the subject ("corretly"-->"correctly").

Out of curiosity, what led you to spot this?  General code inspection or did 
this come out of some tool?

> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_main.c 
> b/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_main.c
> index 34c49b8..7c5f602 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_main.c
> @@ -328,14 +328,14 @@ static void *usnic_ib_device_add(struct pci_dev *dev)
>       netdev = pci_get_drvdata(dev);
> 
>       us_ibdev = (struct usnic_ib_dev *)ib_alloc_device(sizeof(*us_ibdev));
> -     if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(us_ibdev)) {
> +     if (!us_ibdev) {
>               usnic_err("Device %s context alloc failed\n",
>                               netdev_name(pci_get_drvdata(dev)));
>               return ERR_PTR(us_ibdev ? PTR_ERR(us_ibdev) : -EFAULT);

I think this can become:

return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);

>       }
> 
>       us_ibdev->ufdev = usnic_fwd_dev_alloc(dev);
> -     if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(us_ibdev->ufdev)) {
> +     if (!us_ibdev->ufdev) {
>               usnic_err("Failed to alloc ufdev for %s with err %ld\n",
>                               pci_name(dev), PTR_ERR(us_ibdev->ufdev));

This PTR_ERR and message make less sense now.

-Dave

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