KVM: correct error-handling code

Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

This code is not executed before file has been initialized to the result of
calling eventfd_fget.  This function returns an ERR_PTR value in an error
case instead of NULL.  Thus the test that file is not NULL is always true.

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

// 
@match exists@
expression x, E;
statement S1, S2;
@@

x = eventfd_fget(...)
... when != x = E
(
*  if (x == NULL || ...) S1 else S2
|
*  if (x == NULL && ...) S1 else S2
)
// 

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall 
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity 
---
 virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
diff --git a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
index 99017e8..bb4ebd8 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ fail:
 	if (eventfd && !IS_ERR(eventfd))
 		eventfd_ctx_put(eventfd);
 
-	if (file && !IS_ERR(file))
+	if (!IS_ERR(file))
 		fput(file);
 
 	kfree(irqfd);
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