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Commit a5ed3cee authored by Joe Perches's avatar Joe Perches Committed by Linus Torvalds
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err.h: use bool for IS_ERR and IS_ERR_OR_NULL 



Use the more natural return of bool for these tests.

No difference observed in .o files produced by gcc for x86.

Remove the dentry description of kernel pointers left over from the 90's
and 2002's cleanup move of parts of fs.h to err.h.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 8e3072a2

include/linux/err.h

+4 −3
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@@ -2,12 +2,13 @@ 
#define _LINUX_ERR_H



#include <linux/compiler.h>

#include <linux/types.h>



#include <asm/errno.h>



/*

 * Kernel pointers have redundant information, so we can use a

 * scheme where we can return either an error code or a dentry

 * scheme where we can return either an error code or a normal

 * pointer with the same return value.

 *

 * This should be a per-architecture thing, to allow different
@@ -29,12 +30,12 @@ static inline long __must_check PTR_ERR(__force const void *ptr) 
	return (long) ptr;

}



static inline long __must_check IS_ERR(__force const void *ptr)

static inline bool __must_check IS_ERR(__force const void *ptr)

{

	return IS_ERR_VALUE((unsigned long)ptr);

}



static inline long __must_check IS_ERR_OR_NULL(__force const void *ptr)

static inline bool __must_check IS_ERR_OR_NULL(__force const void *ptr)

{

	return !ptr || IS_ERR_VALUE((unsigned long)ptr);

}