Re: [PATCH 1/1] dpt_i2o: delete unnecessary null test on array

[walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>]

Am 06.08.2014 12:39, schrieb Julia Lawall:
> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
> 
> Delete NULL test on array (always false).
> 
> A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
> follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @r@
> type T;
> T [] e;
> position p;
> @@
> e =@p NULL
> 
> @ disable fld_to_ptr@
> expression e;
> identifier f;
> position r.p;
> @@
> * e.f =@p NULL
> // </smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
> 
> ---
> I don't know if this is the correct change, or if some other test was
> intended.  But the code has been this way since at least 2.4.20, so it
> would seem that no one has been bothered by the lack of whatever this was
> supposed to test for.
> 
>  drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c |    5 -----
>  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c b/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c
> index 67283ef..62e276b 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c
> @@ -1169,11 +1169,6 @@ static struct adpt_device* adpt_find_device(adpt_hba* pHba, u32 chan, u32 id, u6
>  	if(chan < 0 || chan >= MAX_CHANNEL)
>  		return NULL;
>  	

chan is u32 and u32 < 0 ?
for the next round.

re,
 wh

> -	if( pHba->channel[chan].device = NULL){
> -		printk(KERN_DEBUG"Adaptec I2O RAID: Trying to find device before they are allocated\n");
> -		return NULL;
> -	}
> -
>  	d = pHba->channel[chan].device[id];
>  	if(!d || d->tid = 0) {
>  		return NULL;
> 
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