Re: [cocci] [PATCH 12/61] quota: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check

Jan Kara <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:13:46 +0100

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On Tue 10-03-26 12:48:38, Philipp Hahn wrote:
> Prefer using IS_ERR_OR_NULL() over using IS_ERR() and a manual NULL
> check.
> 
> Change generated with coccinelle.
> 
> To: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <[email protected]>

Thanks for the patch but frankly I find the original variant clearer wrt
what is going on. So I prefer to keep the code as is.

								Honza

> ---
>  fs/quota/quota.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/quota/quota.c b/fs/quota/quota.c
> index 33bacd70758007129e0375bab44d7431195ec441..2e09fc247d0cf45b9e83a4f8a0be7ea694c8c2a1 100644
> --- a/fs/quota/quota.c
> +++ b/fs/quota/quota.c
> @@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(quotactl, unsigned int, cmd, const char __user *, special,
>  	else
>  		drop_super_exclusive(sb);
>  out:
> -	if (pathp && !IS_ERR(pathp))
> +	if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(pathp))
>  		path_put(pathp);
>  	return ret;
>  }
> 
> -- 
> 2.43.0
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <[email protected]>
SUSE Labs, CR