Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Move the test on pdev->id before the kzalloc to avoid requiring kfree when the test fails. This fix was suggested by Wolfram Sang. A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ identifier x; expression E1!=0,E2,E3,E4; statement S; iterator I; @@ ( if …