On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 08:05:10PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > Apply PTR_ERR to the value that was recently assigned. > > > > The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: > > (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) > > I have no idea what's going on with this stuff without spending more > time than it looks like should need, there's a moderately big thread and > some patches posted in the middle of it. Can you repost whatever the > current state is please? The discussion was about introducing a temporary variable to simplify the code. But that makes a lot of changes, so I think it would be better to just apply the original bug fixing patch as is, and then the cleanup could be applied on top of that. I will submit the original patch again. julia -- 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