On Tue, 2016-04-05 at 13:28 -0500, Suman Anna wrote: > Commit 7aba4f5201d1 ("clk: ti: dflt: fix enable_reg validity check") > fixed a validation check by using an IS_ERR() macro within the > existing unlikely expression, but IS_ERR() macro already has an > unlikely inside it, so get rid of the redundant unlikely macro > from the validation check. [] > diff --git a/drivers/clk/ti/clkt_dflt.c b/drivers/clk/ti/clkt_dflt.c [] > @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ int omap2_dflt_clk_enable(struct clk_hw *hw) > } > } > > - if (unlikely(IS_ERR(clk->enable_reg))) { > + if (IS_ERR(clk->enable_reg)) { > pr_err("%s: %s missing enable_reg\n", __func__, > clk_hw_get_name(hw)); > ret = -EINVAL; There are several of these: $ git grep -n -E "likely.*\bIS_ERR\s*\(" * drivers/clk/ti/clkt_dflt.c:225: if (unlikely(IS_ERR(clk->enable_reg))) { drivers/md/dm-verity-fec.c:76: if (unlikely(IS_ERR(res))) { drivers/md/dm-verity-fec.c:168: if (unlikely(IS_ERR(par))) drivers/md/dm-verity-fec.c:253: if (unlikely(IS_ERR(bbuf))) { drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c:1109: if (unlikely(IS_ERR(skb))) drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_enet.c:1010: if (unlikely(!phy_dev) || IS_ERR(phy_dev)) drivers/net/ethernet/sun/ldmvsw.c:302: if (unlikely(IS_ERR(vp))) { drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c:2547: if (likely(!IS_ERR(thread))) { drivers/scsi/bnx2i/bnx2i_init.c:431: if (likely(!IS_ERR(thread))) { drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c:1263: if (likely(!IS_ERR(thread))) { drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/o2iblnd/o2iblnd.c:1500: if (likely(!IS_ERR(pfmr))) { drivers/thermal/intel_powerclamp.c:541: if (likely(!IS_ERR(thread))) { drivers/thermal/intel_powerclamp.c:591: if (likely(!IS_ERR(thread))) { drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:2682: if (likely(!IS_ERR(tty_dev))) { fs/gfs2/dir.c:854: if (unlikely(dent == NULL || IS_ERR(dent))) { fs/ntfs/inode.c:2724: if (unlikely(err || IS_ERR(m))) { fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c:744: if (likely(page && !IS_ERR(page))) { fs/ntfs/mft.c:85: if (likely(!IS_ERR(page))) { fs/ntfs/mft.c:168: if (likely(!IS_ERR(m))) fs/ntfs/mft.c:285: if (likely(!IS_ERR(m))) { fs/ntfs/mft.c:1311: if (unlikely(IS_ERR(rl) || !rl->length || rl->lcn < 0)) { fs/ntfs/mft.c:1742: if (unlikely(IS_ERR(rl) || !rl->length || rl->lcn < 0)) { fs/ntfs/mft.c:1784: if (likely(!IS_ERR(rl2))) fs/ntfs/namei.c:132: if (likely(!IS_ERR(dent_inode))) { fs/ntfs/runlist.c:968: if (likely(!IS_ERR(old_rl))) fs/ntfs/super.c:1492: if (unlikely(IS_ERR(tmp_ino) || is_bad_inode(tmp_ino))) { net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3212: if (unlikely(IS_ERR(rt))) net/kcm/kcmsock.c:1969: if (unlikely(IS_ERR(newfile))) { net/openvswitch/datapath.c:1315: if (likely(!IS_ERR(reply))) { net/socket.c:399: if (likely(!IS_ERR(newfile))) { Maybe a new checkpatch test like: --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index e3d9c34..25e81b9 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -5734,6 +5734,13 @@ sub process { } } +# check for IS_ERR with likely + + if ($line =~ /\b((?:un)?likely)\s*\(\s*\!?\s*IS_ERR\s*\(/) { + WARN("IS_ERR_IS_UNLIKELY", + "Using $1 isn't recommended as IS_ERR already uses unlikely\n" . $herecurr); + } + # check for semaphores initialized locked if ($line =~ /^.\s*sema_init.+,\W?0\W?\)/) { WARN("CONSIDER_COMPLETION", -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html