The various basic memory allocation function return NULL, not an
ERR_PTR.
The semantic patch that makes this change is available in
scripts/coccinelle/null/eno.cocci.
More information about semantic patching is available at
http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <[email protected]>
Cc: Niranjana Vishwanathapura <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
for (i = 0; i < NUM_SMD_PKT_PORTS; ++i) {
smd_pkt_devp[i] = kzalloc(sizeof(struct smd_pkt_dev),
GFP_KERNEL);
- if (IS_ERR(smd_pkt_devp[i])) {
- r = PTR_ERR(smd_pkt_devp[i]);
- pr_err("kmalloc() failed %d\n", r);
+ if (!smd_pkt_devp[i]) {
+ pr_err("kmalloc() failed\n");
goto clean_cdevs;
}