From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Test the value that was just allocated rather than the previously tested one. A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @r@ expression *x; expression e; identifier l; @@ if (x == NULL || ...) { ... when forall return ...; } ... when != goto l; when != x = e when != &x *x == NULL // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c index ab871e0..d0c38a6 100644 --- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c +++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c @@ -2770,7 +2770,7 @@ static int drbd_create_mempools(void) drbd_ee_mempool = mempool_create(number, mempool_alloc_slab, mempool_free_slab, drbd_ee_cache); - if (drbd_request_mempool == NULL) + if (drbd_ee_mempool == NULL) goto Enomem; /* drbd's page pool */ -- 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