[PATCH 17/61] module: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check

Philipp Hahn
2026-03-10T11:56:28Z

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

Change generated with coccinelle.

To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
To: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
To: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@kernel.org>
To: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
To: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
Cc: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <phahn-oss@avm.de>
---
kernel/module/main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/module/main.c b/kernel/module/main.c
index c3ce106c70af165e2dc1a3c79f5a074a5c3e3d34..7f62f0620dcd75960e431f7af3d1cadf4cc41e4b 100644
--- a/kernel/module/main.c
+++ b/kernel/module/main.c
@@ -1551,7 +1551,7 @@ static int simplify_symbols(struct module *mod, const struct load_info *info)
case SHN_UNDEF:
ksym = resolve_symbol_wait(mod, info, name);
/* Ok if resolved. */
- if (ksym && !IS_ERR(ksym)) {
+ if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(ksym)) {
sym[i].st_value = kernel_symbol_value(ksym);
break;
}

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