From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> The function thermal_cooling_device_register always returns either a valid pointer or a value made with ERR_PTR, so a test for non-zero on the result will always succeed. The problem was found using the following semantic match. (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) //<smpl> @a@ expression E, E1; statement S,S1; position p; @@ E = thermal_cooling_device_register(...) ... when != E = E1 if@p (E) S else S1 @n@ position a.p; expression E,E1; statement S,S1; @@ E = NULL ... when != E = E1 if@p (E) S else S1 @depends on !n@ expression E; statement S,S1; position a.p; @@ * if@p (E) S else S1 //</smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c | 24 +++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff -u -p a/drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c b/drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c --- a/drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c 2008-03-12 14:13:13.000000000 +0100 +++ b/drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c 2008-03-24 16:18:06.000000000 +0100 @@ -175,19 +175,17 @@ static int intel_menlow_memory_add(struc goto end; } - if (cdev) { - acpi_driver_data(device) = cdev; - result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj, - &cdev->device.kobj, "thermal_cooling"); - if (result) - goto unregister; - - result = sysfs_create_link(&cdev->device.kobj, - &device->dev.kobj, "device"); - if (result) { - sysfs_remove_link(&device->dev.kobj, "thermal_cooling"); - goto unregister; - } + acpi_driver_data(device) = cdev; + result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj, + &cdev->device.kobj, "thermal_cooling"); + if (result) + goto unregister; + + result = sysfs_create_link(&cdev->device.kobj, + &device->dev.kobj, "device"); + if (result) { + sysfs_remove_link(&device->dev.kobj, "thermal_cooling"); + goto unregister; } end: -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
