Re: [PATCH 00/15] trivial: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Mon Aug 03 2015 - 22:19:59 EST


On 03-08-15, 17:38, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 13:23:10 +0300
> "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > We have two cases in code:
> >
> > drivers/rtc/rtc-gemini.c: if (likely(IS_ERR(rtc->rtc_dev)))
> > drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lu_object.c: if (likely(IS_ERR(shadow) && PTR_ERR(shadow) == -ENOENT)) {
> >
> > The first one is mistake, I think. Or do we expect rtc_device_register()
> > to fail?
> >
> > The second is redundant. "if (PTR_ERR(shadow) == -ENOENT)" should do the
> > job.
> >
>
> Yep, those look like bugs to me.

Yeah, I have fixed both of them :)

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