From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> As noted by Akinobu Mita in patch b1fceac2b9e04d278316b2faddf276015fc06e3b, alloc_bootmem and related functions never return NULL and always return a zeroed region of memory. Thus a NULL test or memset after calls to these functions is unnecessary. arch/ia64/kernel/iosapic.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) This was fixed using the following semantic patch. (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @@ expression E; statement S; @@ E = \(alloc_bootmem\|alloc_bootmem_low\|alloc_bootmem_pages\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages\)(...) ... when != E ( - BUG_ON (E == NULL); | - if (E == NULL) S ) @@ expression E,E1; @@ E = \(alloc_bootmem\|alloc_bootmem_low\|alloc_bootmem_pages\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages\)(...) ... when != E - memset(E,0,E1); // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- diff -u -p a/arch/ia64/kernel/iosapic.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/iosapic.c --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/iosapic.c +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/iosapic.c @@ -558,8 +558,6 @@ static struct iosapic_rte_info * __init_ if (!iosapic_kmalloc_ok && list_empty(&free_rte_list)) { rte = alloc_bootmem(sizeof(struct iosapic_rte_info) * NR_PREALLOCATE_RTE_ENTRIES); - if (!rte) - return NULL; for (i = 0; i < NR_PREALLOCATE_RTE_ENTRIES; i++, rte++) list_add(&rte->rte_list, &free_rte_list); } -- 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