Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Test the just-allocated value for NULL rather than some other value. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ expression x,y; statement S; @@ x = \(kmalloc\|kcalloc\|kzalloc\)(…); ( if ((x) == NULL) S | if ( – y + x == NULL) S ) // Signed-off-by: …