Thread (124 messages) 124 messages, 35 authors, 2026-04-16

Re: [PATCH 46/61] vfio: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check

From: Pranjal Shrivastava <praan@google.com>
Date: 2026-03-10 12:54:08
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 12:49:12PM +0100, Philipp Hahn wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Prefer using IS_ERR_OR_NULL() over using IS_ERR() and a manual NULL
check.

Change generated with coccinelle.

To: Alex Williamson <alex@shazbot.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <redacted>
---
 drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
index 742477546b15d4dbaf9ebcfb2e67627db71521e0..d71922dfde5885967398deddec3e9e04b05adfec 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
@@ -923,7 +923,7 @@ vfio_ioctl_device_feature_mig_device_state(struct vfio_device *device,
 
 	/* Handle the VFIO_DEVICE_FEATURE_SET */
 	filp = device->mig_ops->migration_set_state(device, mig.device_state);
-	if (IS_ERR(filp) || !filp)
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(filp))
 		goto out_copy;
 
 	return vfio_ioct_mig_return_fd(filp, arg, &mig);
Reviewed-by: Pranjal Shrivastava <praan@google.com>

The cleanup alone looks fine, but I'm not sure if the maintainers would
be happy about the tree-wide spam, since each patch might go through a
different tree. I'd wait for Alex's preference/ack on that.

Thanks,
Praan
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