The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression e1,e2; statement S1,S2; @@ +e1 = e2; if (IS_ERR( e1 - = e2 )) S1 else S2 // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> --- ipc/mqueue.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ipc/mqueue.c b/ipc/mqueue.c index f4617cf..3975abc 100644 --- a/ipc/mqueue.c +++ b/ipc/mqueue.c @@ -786,7 +786,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(mq_open, const char __user *, u_name, int, oflag, umode_t, mode, audit_mq_open(oflag, mode, u_attr ? &attr : NULL); - if (IS_ERR(name = getname(u_name))) + name = getname(u_name); + if (IS_ERR(name)) return PTR_ERR(name); fd = get_unused_fd_flags(O_CLOEXEC); -- 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