From: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> fs/ext4/resize.c:999:6-12: inconsistent IS_ERR and PTR_ERR on line 1000. PTR_ERR should access the value just tested by IS_ERR Semantic patch information: There can be false positives in the patch case, where it is the call to IS_ERR that is wrong. Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/tests/odd_ptr_err.cocci Fixes: 0212baa67119 ("ext4: add ext4_sb_bread() to disambiguate ENOMEM cases") CC: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> --- url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Theodore-Ts-o/ext4-add-ext4_sb_bread-to-disambiguate-ENOMEM-cases/20181120-070629 base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git dev Please take the patch only if it's a positive warning. Thanks! resize.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ext4/resize.c +++ b/fs/ext4/resize.c @@ -997,7 +997,7 @@ static int reserve_backup_gdb(handle_t * } primary[res] = ext4_sb_bread(sb, blk); if (IS_ERR(primary[res])) { - err = PTR_ERR(res); + err = PTR_ERR(primary[res]); primary[res] = NULL; goto exit_bh; }