From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Test the just-allocated value for NULL rather than some other value. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression x,y; statement S; @@ x = \(kmalloc\|kcalloc\|kzalloc\)(...); ( if ((x) == NULL) S | if ( - y + x == NULL) S ) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -u -p a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c --- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c +++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c @@ -3944,7 +3944,7 @@ static int drbd_do_auth(struct drbd_conf } right_response = kmalloc(resp_size, GFP_NOIO); - if (response == NULL) { + if (right_response == NULL) { dev_err(DEV, "kmalloc of right_response failed\n"); rv = 0; 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