This patch fix checkpatch.pl WARNING:

 WARNING: braces {} are not necessary for single statement blocks

Signed-off-by: Bilel DRIRA <bilel.dr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Fix the following checkpatch.pl errors

ERROR: else should follow close brace '}'
+                       }
+                       else {

ERROR: else should follow close brace '}'
+                       }
+                       else {

ERROR: else should follow close brace '}'
+                       }
+                       else {

ERROR: else should follow close brace '}'
+       }
+       else {

ERROR: else should follow close brace '}'
+                       }
+                       else {

Signed-off-by: Austin Kerbow <amkerbow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Avoid allocate memory if we will exit the function.

Was found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.

Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Fixed a coding style issue for braces.

Signed-off-by: Dean Michael Ancajas <dbancajas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Replace two instances of __attribute ((__packed__) with __packed macro
to address the warning found by the checkpatch.pl tool.

Signed-off-by: Geoff Darst <geoffda@comcast.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

This patch fix the checkpatch.pl warning

WARNING: Missing a blank line after declaration

Signed-off-by: Anjana Sasindran <anjanasasindran123@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Use a more common logging style.

o Convert DEBUG macros to pr_debug
o Add pr_fmt
o Remove embedded function names from pr_debug
o Convert printks to pr_<level>
o Coalesce formats and align arguments
o Add missing terminating newlines

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Use normal kernel style, indentation and alignment.

git diff -w shows no difference

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

ERROR: space prohibited after that '&' (ctx:WxW)
ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar"
ERROR: space prohibited after that open parenthesis '('
ERROR: space prohibited before that close parenthesis ')'

Signed-off-by: Surya Seetharaman <suryaseetharaman.9@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

void pointers do not need to be cast to other pointer types.

The semantic patch used to find this:

@r@
expression x;
void* e;
type T;
identifier f;
@@

(
  *((T *)e)
|
  ((T *)x)[...]
|
  ((T *)x)->f
|
- (T *)
  e
)

Build tested it.

Signed-off-by: Tapasweni Pathak <tapaswenipathak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>