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Staging: iio: accel: sca3000: Fixed NULL comparison style

The variable u8 **rx_p, is a pointer-to-pointer and hence the check
should
be "if (!*rx_p)" and not "if (!rx_p)".
In the earlier version, checkpatch.pl gave the following check, which
was incorrect:
CHECK: Comparison to NULL could be written "!rx_p"
+ if (*rx_p == NULL) {

Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>

authored by

Bhaktipriya Shridhar and committed by
Jonathan Cameron
34708a0c 6e17c98a

+1 -1
+1 -1
drivers/staging/iio/accel/sca3000_ring.c
··· 48 48 } 49 49 }; 50 50 *rx_p = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); 51 - if (*rx_p == NULL) { 51 + if (!*rx_p) { 52 52 ret = -ENOMEM; 53 53 goto error_ret; 54 54 }