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Re: [PATCH 3/3] pstore: Adjust two checks for null pointers

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On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 12:23 PM, SF Markus Elfring
<elfring@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 21:00:16 +0200
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
> The script “checkpatch.pl” pointed information out like the following.
>
> Comparison to NULL could be written !…
>
> Thus fix affected source code places.

I think these are find to do when changing other code, but as
stand-alone, I'm not interested in taking them, sorry!

-Kees

>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> ---
>  fs/pstore/ram.c      | 2 +-
>  fs/pstore/ram_core.c | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c
> index 0ef95c384bed..38b81868f7f9 100644
> --- a/fs/pstore/ram.c
> +++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c
> @@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ static ssize_t ramoops_pstore_read(struct pstore_record *record)
>         record->ecc_notice_size = persistent_ram_ecc_string(prz, NULL, 0);
>
>         record->buf = kmalloc(size + record->ecc_notice_size + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> -       if (record->buf == NULL) {
> +       if (!record->buf) {
>                 size = -ENOMEM;
>                 goto out;
>         }
> diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram_core.c b/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
> index 5d9f7280d757..e37b2d0cb9f4 100644
> --- a/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
> +++ b/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
> @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ static int persistent_ram_init_ecc(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz,
>          */
>         prz->rs_decoder = init_rs(prz->ecc_info.symsize, prz->ecc_info.poly,
>                                   0, 1, prz->ecc_info.ecc_size);
> -       if (prz->rs_decoder == NULL) {
> +       if (!prz->rs_decoder) {
>                 pr_info("init_rs failed\n");
>                 return -EINVAL;
>         }
> --
> 2.14.0
>



-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security

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[PATCH 0/3] pstore: Adjustments for some function implementations SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2017-08-16 21:30 +0200
  [PATCH 3/3] pstore: Adjust two checks for null pointers SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2017-08-16 21:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/3] pstore: Adjust two checks for null pointers Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-08-16 21:40 +0200

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