On Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:07:50 -0400
Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:48:41 +0100
> Philipp Hahn <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Prefer using IS_ERR_OR_NULL() over using IS_ERR() and a manual NULL
> > check.
> 
> Why?
> 
> > 
> > Change generated with coccinelle.
> > 
> > To: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
> > To: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
> > To: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  kernel/trace/fprobe.c                | 2 +-
> >  kernel/trace/kprobe_event_gen_test.c | 2 +-
> >  kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c     | 2 +-
> >  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/fprobe.c b/kernel/trace/fprobe.c
> > index 
> > dcadf1d23b8a31f571392d0c49cbd22df1716b4f..a94ce810d83b90f55d1178a9bd29c78fd068df4c
> >  100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/fprobe.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/fprobe.c
> > @@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ static int fprobe_module_callback(struct notifier_block 
> > *nb,
> >     do {
> >             rhashtable_walk_start(&iter);
> >  
> > -           while ((node = rhashtable_walk_next(&iter)) && !IS_ERR(node))
> > +           while (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL((node = rhashtable_walk_next(&iter))))
> 
> Ug, No!
> 
> That looks so much worse than the original.

Hmm, now IS_ERR_OR_NULL() is an inline function, so it is safe.
But if you want to use IS_ERR_OR_NULL() here, it will be better something like

node = rhashtable_walk_next(&iter);
while (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(node)) {
        fprobe_remove_node_in_module(mod, node, &alist);
        node = rhashtable_walk_next(&iter);
}

Thanks,

> 
> -- Steve
> 
> >                     fprobe_remove_node_in_module(mod, node, &alist);
> >  
> >             rhashtable_walk_stop(&iter);
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/kprobe_event_gen_test.c 
> > b/kernel/trace/kprobe_event_gen_test.c
> > index 
> > 5a4b722b50451bfdee42769a6d3be39c055690d1..a1735ca273f0b756aa1fcfcdab30ddad9bc51c5f
> >  100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/kprobe_event_gen_test.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/kprobe_event_gen_test.c
> > @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ static struct trace_event_file *gen_kretprobe_test;
> >  
> >  static bool trace_event_file_is_valid(struct trace_event_file *input)
> >  {
> > -   return input && !IS_ERR(input);
> > +   return !IS_ERR_OR_NULL(input);
> >  }
> >  
> >  /*
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c 
> > b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> > index 
> > 73ea180cad555898693e92ee397a1c9493c7c167..59df215e1dfd9349eca1c0823ed709ec7285f766
> >  100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> > @@ -3973,7 +3973,7 @@ trace_action_create_field_var(struct 
> > hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
> >      */
> >     field_var = create_target_field_var(hist_data, system, event, var);
> >  
> > -   if (field_var && !IS_ERR(field_var)) {
> > +   if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(field_var)) {
> >             save_field_var(hist_data, field_var);
> >             hist_field = field_var->var;
> >     } else {
> > 
> 


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <[email protected]>

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