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Julia Lawall
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The function thermal_cooling_device_register always returns either a valid pointer or a value made with ERR_PTR, so a test for non-zero on the result will always succeed. The problem was found using the following semantic match. (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) //<smpl> @a@ expression E, E1; statement S,S1; position p; @@ E = thermal_cooling_device_register(...) ... when != E = E1 if@p (E) S else S1 @n@ position a.p; expression E,E1; statement S,S1; @@ E = NULL ... when != E = E1 if@p (E) S else S1 @depends on !n@ expression E; statement S,S1; position a.p; @@ * if@p (E) S else S1 //</smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Sujith <[email protected]> Cc: Len Brown <[email protected]> Cc: Zhang Rui <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>