diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
index 20e53b167f81f5d4dd03507edb9eb93bf3ed7411..c8539d0e12dd76841e1ffe364d30c1ea65d9ddad 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -7304,7 +7304,9 @@ static struct r5conf *setup_conf(struct mddev *mddev)
 		goto abort;
 	conf->mddev = mddev;
 
-	if ((conf->stripe_hashtbl = kzalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL)
+	ret = -ENOMEM;
+	conf->stripe_hashtbl = kzalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!conf->stripe_hashtbl)
 		goto abort;
 
 	/* We init hash_locks[0] separately to that it can be used