From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
"Peter Huewe" <peterhuewe@gmx.de>,
linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, kernel@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] char: tpm: cr50_i2c: Drop if with an always false condition
Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 07:02:44 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YnH65MnQdkpZ10pe@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220426113541.GA64706@ziepe.ca>
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 08:35:41AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 07:35:29AM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
>
> > Even if chip is expected not to be NULL, a sanity check costs nothing.
> > As already said, this should be reviewed in the context of the callback
> > change.
> >
> > Even then, the change should rather be:
> >
> > if (!chip) {
> > dev_err(dev, "Could not get client data at remove\n");
> > return;
> > }
>
> If it can't happen by design it should be deleted entirely, or be
> turned into a WARN_ON:
>
> if (WARN_ON(!chip))
> return;
>
> But I find this largely unnecessary as a null chip will reliably oops
> later on in the same function.
>
> Jason
Fine, I applied the patch.
BR, Jarkko
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-04 4:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-12 22:53 [PATCH] char: tpm: cr50_i2c: Drop if with an always false condition Uwe Kleine-König
2021-11-13 10:53 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-11-13 21:53 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2021-11-16 15:55 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-11-16 17:30 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2022-03-31 13:22 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2022-04-25 19:11 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2022-04-26 4:35 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-04-26 8:06 ` [PATCH] char: tpm: cr50_i2c: Suppress duplicated error message in .remove() Uwe Kleine-König
2022-05-04 3:53 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-05-04 4:06 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-04-26 11:35 ` [PATCH] char: tpm: cr50_i2c: Drop if with an always false condition Jason Gunthorpe
2022-05-04 4:02 ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
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