diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
index 7958d5c9663f5894a353363017e7aefd5014305f..cefc208c313ac2ece917beb9f937eec30c566af6 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ static int ashmem_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 
 		/* ... and allocate the backing shmem file */
 		vmfile = shmem_file_setup(name, asma->size, vma->vm_flags);
-		if (unlikely(IS_ERR(vmfile))) {
+		if (IS_ERR(vmfile)) {
 			ret = PTR_ERR(vmfile);
 			goto out;
 		}
diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/libcfs/libcfs.h b/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/libcfs/libcfs.h
index 5dd9cdfae30ccb9b793c167ae7275ac7ca7b07f9..d585041041c7c711bb1fe01d26f2509e3b3697fd 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/libcfs/libcfs.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/libcfs/libcfs.h
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ void cfs_get_random_bytes(void *buf, int size);
 /* container_of depends on "likely" which is defined in libcfs_private.h */
 static inline void *__container_of(void *ptr, unsigned long shift)
 {
-	if (unlikely(IS_ERR(ptr) || ptr == NULL))
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(ptr))
 		return ptr;
 	return (char *)ptr - shift;
 }
diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lu_object.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lu_object.c
index 9469a250d8dc9c69e300931f95ff2b6f57191d23..8e472327c880e3201992b3995456785227bcf4f6 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lu_object.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lu_object.c
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ static struct lu_object *lu_object_new(const struct lu_env *env,
 	struct lu_site_bkt_data *bkt;
 
 	o = lu_object_alloc(env, dev, f, conf);
-	if (unlikely(IS_ERR(o)))
+	if (IS_ERR(o))
 		return o;
 
 	hs = dev->ld_site->ls_obj_hash;
@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ static struct lu_object *lu_object_find_try(const struct lu_env *env,
 	 * operations, including fld queries, inode loading, etc.
 	 */
 	o = lu_object_alloc(env, dev, f, conf);
-	if (unlikely(IS_ERR(o)))
+	if (IS_ERR(o))
 		return o;
 
 	LASSERT(lu_fid_eq(lu_object_fid(o), f));
@@ -1558,7 +1558,7 @@ static int keys_fill(struct lu_context *ctx)
 			LINVRNT(key->lct_index == i);
 
 			value = key->lct_init(ctx, key);
-			if (unlikely(IS_ERR(value)))
+			if (IS_ERR(value))
 				return PTR_ERR(value);
 
 			if (!(ctx->lc_tags & LCT_NOREF))