Test the just-initialized value rather than some other one.
The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@r@
identifier x,y,f!={PTR_ERR,ERR_PTR,ERR_CAST};
statement S;
@@
x = f(...);
(
if (\(x == NULL\|IS_ERR(x)\)) S
|
*if (\(y == NULL\|IS_ERR(y)\))
 { ... when != x
   return ...; }
)
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Acked-by: David Chang <dchang@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
                             strlen(vhci_driver->hc_device->path))) {
                        /* found usbip device */
                        usbip_cdev = calloc(1, sizeof(*usbip_cdev));
-                       if (!cdev) {
+                       if (!usbip_cdev) {
                                dbg("calloc failed");
                                return -1;
                        }