From 67b172c097177835fbf5b0666885c4059a4f67ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julien Brunel <brunel@diku.dk>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:04:12 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fs/reiserfs: use an IS_ERR test rather than a NULL test

In case of error, the function open_xa_dir returns an ERR pointer, but
never returns a NULL pointer.  So a NULL test that comes after an IS_ERR
test should be deleted.

The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@match_bad_null_test@
expression x, E;
statement S1,S2;
@@
x = open_xa_dir(...)
... when != x = E
(
*  if (x == NULL && ...) S1 else S2
|
*  if (x == NULL || ...) S1 else S2
)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julien Brunel <brunel@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 fs/reiserfs/xattr.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
index bb3cb5b7cdb2..ad92461cbfc3 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ static struct dentry *get_xa_file_dentry(const struct inode *inode,
 	xadir = open_xa_dir(inode, flags);
 	if (IS_ERR(xadir)) {
 		return ERR_CAST(xadir);
-	} else if (xadir && !xadir->d_inode) {
+	} else if (!xadir->d_inode) {
 		dput(xadir);
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENODATA);
 	}
-- 
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