Re: [PATCH] PCI: ibmphp: Remove unneeded NULL test

[Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 08:31:57AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
> 
> Remove unneeded NULL test.  The index variable of list_for_each_entry is
> never NULL, as it is the structure that contains the list pointer.
> 
> Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/iterators/itnull.cocci
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
> CC: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com>

I applied this to pci/hotplug and plan to include it for v4.5.  I'm just
resending it so it's on the linux-pci list.

> ---
>  drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_core.c |    3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_core.c b/drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_core.c
> index 010e46a..49adf22 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_core.c
> @@ -503,9 +503,6 @@ static int __init init_ops(void)
>  	int rc;
>  
>  	list_for_each_entry(slot_cur, &ibmphp_slot_head, ibm_slot_list) {
> -		if (!slot_cur)
> -			return -ENODEV;
> -
>  		debug("BEFORE GETTING SLOT STATUS, slot # %x\n",
>  							slot_cur->number);
>  		if (slot_cur->ctrl->revision == 0xFF)
> 
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