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| author | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2014-12-10 15:52:02 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-12-10 17:41:12 -0800 |
| commit | b75ac618df751b927469ddbca63cf151a62f0f9d (patch) | |
| tree | fbc657be2fa3993e8639d5e083f4962811b025c5 /tools | |
| parent | 90ad30e5b2a759333f06eee64e59a0d886d02036 (diff) | |
checkpatch: add --strict "pointer comparison to NULL" test
It seems there are more and more uses of "if (!ptr)" in preference to "if
(ptr == NULL)" so add a --strict test to emit a message when using the
latter form.
This also finds (ptr != NULL).
Fix it too if desired.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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