From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryan Mallon Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] Add yaffs2 file system: Linux glue code Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:24:56 +1300 Message-ID: <4D5DA038.5070505@bluewatersys.com> References: <1297221968-6747-1-git-send-email-cdhmanning@gmail.com> <1297221968-6747-10-git-send-email-cdhmanning@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org To: Charles Manning Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1297221968-6747-10-git-send-email-cdhmanning@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On 02/09/2011 04:26 PM, Charles Manning wrote: > Signed-off-by: Charles Manning > --- > +/* > + * yaffs_search_end() disposes of a search context and cleans up. > + */ > +static void yaffs_search_end(struct yaffs_search_context *sc) > +{ > + if (sc) { This test, and the similar one in yaffs_search_advance, are not needed. There is no way that sc can be passed as NULL here. Even if that could happen you probably want to oops rather than silently carrying on. I think there are similar issues in other functions throughout the yaffs code where you are testing if various pointers are NULL and returning silently if they are. All of these cases should be fixed to remove the extraneous code. ~Ryan -- Bluewater Systems Ltd - ARM Technology Solution Centre Ryan Mallon 5 Amuri Park, 404 Barbadoes St ryan@bluewatersys.com PO Box 13 889, Christchurch 8013 http://www.bluewatersys.com New Zealand Phone: +64 3 3779127 Freecall: Australia 1800 148 751 Fax: +64 3 3779135 USA 1800 261 2934