[PATCH 27/61] net/netlink: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
From: Philipp Hahn <hidden>
Date: 2026-03-10 11:55:56
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networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Prefer using IS_ERR_OR_NULL() over using IS_ERR() and a manual NULL check. Change generated with coccinelle. To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> To: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> To: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <redacted> --- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 4d609d5cf40653e04de60f2d28ee26b8bdcdc2ed..58707b9da84adf1002ab9eff9401fa2083374189 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c@@ -2667,7 +2667,7 @@ static void *netlink_seq_start(struct seq_file *seq, loff_t *posp) netlink_walk_start(iter); - for (pos = *posp; pos && obj && !IS_ERR(obj); pos--) + for (pos = *posp; pos && !IS_ERR_OR_NULL(obj); pos--) obj = __netlink_seq_next(seq); return obj;
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