From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:00:23 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch -next] V4L: ivtv: remove unneeded NULL checks Message-Id: <20100723120023.GI26313@bicker> List-Id: References: <20100723101232.GE26313@bicker> <1279885607.2013.8.camel@morgan.silverblock.net> In-Reply-To: <1279885607.2013.8.camel@morgan.silverblock.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Andy Walls Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Ian Armstrong , ivtv-devel@ivtvdriver.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 07:46:47AM -0400, Andy Walls wrote: > On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 12:12 +0200, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > In ivtvfb_callback_cleanup() we dereference "itv" before checking that > > it's NULL. "itv" is assigned with container_of() which basically never > > returns a NULL pointer so the check is pointless. I removed it, along > > with a similar check in ivtvfb_callback_init(). > > > > I considered adding a check for v4l2_dev, but I looked at the code and I > > don't think that can be NULL either. > > > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter > > Hi Dan, > > Thanks, but Jiri Slaby already caught this one: > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/112725/ > > I'm going to let Mauro pick up Jiri's patch out of patchwork. > Wow. It's remarkable how similar they are even down to the change log. regards, dan carpenter