From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> In case of error, the function sock_alloc_file() returns ERR_PTR() and never returns NULL. The NULL test in the return value check should be replaced with IS_ERR(). Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- no compile test --- drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/linux/linux-tcpip.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/linux/linux-tcpip.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/linux/linux-tcpip.c index 6f1f047..855c7e8 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/linux/linux-tcpip.c +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/linux/linux-tcpip.c @@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ libcfs_sock_ioctl(int cmd, unsigned long arg) } sock_filp = sock_alloc_file(sock, 0, NULL); - if (!sock_filp) { + if (IS_ERR(sock_filp)) { sock_release(sock); - rc = -ENOMEM; + rc = PTR_ERR(sock_filp); goto out; } _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel