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From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
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Subject: ERR_PTR and PTR_ERR
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I see a number of occurrences of code like the following:

 	if (IS_ERR(alg))
		return ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(alg));

Is there any reason why the second line couldn't just be return alg?

julia