Re: [cocci] [PATCH 06/61] 9p: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check

Dominique Martinet <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:29:36 +0900
Newsgroups fr.inria.cocci,dev.linux.lists.v9fs,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
-most lists...
Hopefully anyone who might care about 9p is on fsdevel.

I second whoever it was who said this should be split and not send all
the patches to everyone...

Philipp Hahn wrote on Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 12:48:32PM +0100:
> Prefer using IS_ERR_OR_NULL() over using IS_ERR() and a manual NULL
> check.
> 
> Change generated with coccinelle.
> 
> To: Eric Van Hensbergen <[email protected]>
> To: Latchesar Ionkov <[email protected]>
> To: Dominique Martinet <[email protected]>
> To: Christian Schoenebeck <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <[email protected]>
> ---
>  fs/9p/fid.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/9p/fid.h b/fs/9p/fid.h
> index 0d6138bee2a3d1ab565ab2d210c0a3f3bf97e4e3..3bb7ef4380e972a2d9ab67eb4aab6cc5bfe2eea7 100644
> --- a/fs/9p/fid.h
> +++ b/fs/9p/fid.h
> @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ static inline struct p9_fid *v9fs_fid_clone(struct dentry *dentry)
>  	struct p9_fid *fid, *nfid;
>  
>  	fid = v9fs_fid_lookup(dentry);
> -	if (!fid || IS_ERR(fid))
> +	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(fid))

FWIW v9fs_fid_lookup cannot return NULL -- and all its other callers
only check for IS_ERR() so if there is a corner case that does return
NULL then we have another problem -- so please drop the !fid check
instead.

(not that it matters much... But might as well do it right)

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