RDMA/ucma: Test ucma_alloc_multicast() return against NULL, not with IS_ERR()

Author: Julien Brunel <brunel@diku.dk>

In case of error, the function ucma_alloc_multicast() returns a NULL
pointer, but never returns an ERR pointer.  So after a call to this
function, an IS_ERR test should be replaced by a NULL test.

The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// 
@match bad_is_err_test@
expression x, E;
@@

x = ucma_alloc_multicast(...)
... when != x = E
IS_ERR(x)
// 

Signed-off-by:  Julien Brunel 
Signed-off-by:  Julia Lawall 
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier 
---
 drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c
index 3ddacf3..4346a24 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c
@@ -904,8 +904,8 @@ static ssize_t ucma_join_multicast(struct ucma_file *file,
 
 	mutex_lock(&file->mut);
 	mc = ucma_alloc_multicast(ctx);
-	if (IS_ERR(mc)) {
-		ret = PTR_ERR(mc);
+	if (!mc) {
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto err1;
 	}
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