From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> As noted by Akinobu Mita in patch b1fceac2b9e04d278316b2faddf276015fc06e3b, alloc_bootmem and related functions never return NULL and always return a zeroed region of memory. Thus a NULL test or memset after calls to these functions is unnecessary. arch/s390/kernel/topology.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) This was fixed using the following semantic patch. (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @@ expression E; statement S; @@ E = \(alloc_bootmem\|alloc_bootmem_low\|alloc_bootmem_pages\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages\)(...) ... when != E ( - BUG_ON (E == NULL); | - if (E == NULL) S ) @@ expression E,E1; @@ E = \(alloc_bootmem\|alloc_bootmem_low\|alloc_bootmem_pages\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages\)(...) ... when != E - memset(E,0,E1); // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- diff -u -p a/arch/s390/kernel/topology.c b/arch/s390/kernel/topology.c --- a/arch/s390/kernel/topology.c +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/topology.c @@ -313,8 +313,6 @@ void __init s390_init_cpu_topology(void) machine_has_topology_irq = 1; tl_info = alloc_bootmem_pages(PAGE_SIZE); - if (!tl_info) - goto error; info = tl_info; stsi(info, 15, 1, 2); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html