From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Since ei is already known to be non-NULL, I assume that what was intended was to test the result of kzalloc. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @@ expression E,E1; identifier f,fld,fld1; statement S1,S2; @@ E->fld = f(...); ... when != E = E1 when != E->fld1 = E1 if ( - E + E->fld == NULL) S1 else S2 // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/mfd/htc-egpio.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -u -p a/drivers/mfd/htc-egpio.c b/drivers/mfd/htc-egpio.c --- a/drivers/mfd/htc-egpio.c +++ b/drivers/mfd/htc-egpio.c @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ static int __init egpio_probe(struct pla ei->nchips = pdata->num_chips; ei->chip = kzalloc(sizeof(struct egpio_chip) * ei->nchips, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!ei) { + if (!ei->chip) { ret = -ENOMEM; goto fail; } -- 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