To fix clang warning of extraneous parentheses and check patch issue, remove extra parentheses and replace x == NULL with !x. Signed-off-by: Varsha Rao <rvarsha016@xxxxxxxxx> --- Following coccinele script is used to fix the warnings. @disable is_null,paren@ expression e; statement s; @@ if ( - (e==NULL) +!e ) s Changes in v2: - Removed coccinelle script from commit message. drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c b/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c index a746ccdd630a..5b98b7fca0f2 100644 --- a/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c +++ b/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c @@ -335,11 +335,11 @@ static int mpt_remove_dead_ioc_func(void *arg) MPT_ADAPTER *ioc = (MPT_ADAPTER *)arg; struct pci_dev *pdev; - if ((ioc == NULL)) + if (!ioc) return -1; pdev = ioc->pcidev; - if ((pdev == NULL)) + if (!pdev) return -1; pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device_locked(pdev); -- 2.17.0