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Andrey Kuzmin wrote:
> Since both NULL ptr and IS_ERR(ptr) are treated as error, why not
> redefine IS_ERR to handle both, simplifying caller's life?
IS_ERR is a global kernel function, and NULL isn't always an error.
- -Jeff
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> There are a couple functions which return ERR_PTR as well as NULL. The
>> caller needs to handle both.
>>
>> Smatch also complains about the handling of alloc_extent_map() but as far
>> as I can see that doesn't actually return an ERR_PTR.
>>
>> Compile tested on 2.6.29.
>>
>> regards,
>> dan carpenter
>>
>> --- orig/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c 2009-04-07 16:15:36.000000000 +0300
>> +++ devel/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c 2009-04-07 16:23:33.000000000 +0300
>> @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
>>
>> spin_lock(&em_tree->lock);
>> em = lookup_extent_mapping(em_tree, start, len);
>> - if (em) {
>> + if (!IS_ERR(em) && em) {
>> em->bdev =
>> BTRFS_I(inode)->root->fs_info->fs_devices->latest_bdev;
>> spin_unlock(&em_tree->lock);
>> @@ -1216,8 +1216,8 @@
>> int ret;
>>
>> root = btrfs_read_fs_root_no_name(fs_info, location);
>> - if (!root)
>> - return NULL;
>> + if (!root || IS_ERR(root))
>> + return root;
>>
>> if (root->in_sysfs)
>> return root;
>> @@ -1324,7 +1324,7 @@
>> spin_lock(&em_tree->lock);
>> em = lookup_extent_mapping(em_tree, offset, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
>> spin_unlock(&em_tree->lock);
>> - if (!em) {
>> + if (!em || IS_ERR(em)) {
>> __unplug_io_fn(bdi, page);
>> return;
>> }
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Jeff Mahoney
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