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[PATCH 54/61] aoe: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check

From: Philipp Hahn <hidden>
Date: 2026-03-10 11:55:58
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Subsystem: ata over ethernet (aoe) driver, block layer, the rest · Maintainers: "Justin Sanders", Jens Axboe, Linus Torvalds

Prefer using IS_ERR_OR_NULL() over using IS_ERR() and a manual NULL
check.

Change generated with coccinelle.

To: Justin Sanders <justin@coraid.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <redacted>
---
 drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
index a4744a30a8af4ff05113f3234021eec728265b4f..b31e539a66433a0a5d6e81117a32d12735ffc1bc 100644
--- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
@@ -1268,7 +1268,7 @@ aoe_ktstart(struct ktstate *k)
 
 	init_completion(&k->rendez);
 	task = kthread_run(kthread, k, "%s", k->name);
-	if (task == NULL || IS_ERR(task))
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(task))
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	k->task = task;
 	wait_for_completion(&k->rendez); /* allow kthread to start */
-- 
2.43.0
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