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Typically, the return value desired for the failure of a
function with an integer return value is a negative integer.  In
these cases, the return value is sometimes a negative integer
and sometimes 0, due to a subsequent initialization of the
return variable within the loop.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this
problem is: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

//<smpl>
@r exists@
identifier ret;
position p;
constant C;
expression e1,e3,e4;
statement S;
@@

ret = -C
... when != ret = e3
    when any
if@p (...) S
... when any
if (\(ret != 0\|ret < 0\|ret > 0\) || ...) { ... return ...; }
... when != ret = e3
    when any
*if@p (...)
{
  ... when != ret = e4
  return ret;
}
//</smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342284188-19176-7-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Julia Lawall authored and Ingo Molnar committed Jul 26, 2012
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6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions arch/x86/kernel/kdebugfs.c
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Expand Up @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static int __init create_setup_data_nodes(struct dentry *parent)
{
struct setup_data_node *node;
struct setup_data *data;
int error = -ENOMEM;
int error;
struct dentry *d;
struct page *pg;
u64 pa_data;
Expand All @@ -121,8 +121,10 @@ static int __init create_setup_data_nodes(struct dentry *parent)

while (pa_data) {
node = kmalloc(sizeof(*node), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!node)
if (!node) {
error = -ENOMEM;
goto err_dir;
}

pg = pfn_to_page((pa_data+sizeof(*data)-1) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
if (PageHighMem(pg)) {
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