[PATCH] crypto: Correct kzalloc error test

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Tue Apr 29 2008 - 09:38:35 EST


From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

Normally, kzalloc returns NULL or a valid pointer value, not a value to be
tested using IS_ERR.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
---
diff -u -p a/crypto/cryptd.c b/crypto/cryptd.c
--- a/crypto/cryptd.c 2008-04-16 13:27:56.000000000 +0200
+++ b/crypto/cryptd.c 2008-04-29 15:29:54.000000000 +0200
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ static struct crypto_instance *cryptd_al
int err;

inst = kzalloc(sizeof(*inst) + sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (IS_ERR(inst))
+ if (!inst)
goto out;

err = -ENAMETOOLONG;
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