[PATCH 56/61] clk: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check

Brian Masney bmasney at redhat.com
Tue Mar 10 06:21:58 PDT 2026


On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 12:49:22PM +0100, Philipp Hahn wrote:
> Prefer using IS_ERR_OR_NULL() over using IS_ERR() and a manual NULL
> check.
> 
> Semantich change: Previously the code only printed the warning on error,

Semantic ...

> but not when the pointer was NULL. Now the warning is printed in both
> cases!
> 
> Change found with coccinelle.
> 
> To: Michael Turquette <mturquette at baylibre.com>
> To: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at kernel.org>
> To: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at kernel.org>
> To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-clk at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <phahn-oss at avm.de>

With the minor typo addressed:

Reviewed-by: Brian Masney <bmasney at redhat.com>




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