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* [PATCH 00/36] treewide: remove conditional returns with no effect
@ 2026-07-23 18:45 Sang-Heon Jeon
  2026-07-23 18:45 ` [PATCH 10/36] wifi: remove conditional return " Sang-Heon Jeon
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Sang-Heon Jeon @ 2026-07-23 18:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Julia.Lawall, Alex Deucher, Alexander Shishkin, Alexandre Belloni,
	Andrew Lunn, Andrew Morton, Arkadiusz Kubalewski, Borislav Petkov,
	Christian König, Daniel Lezcano, David Airlie,
	David S. Miller, Dmitry Torokhov, Eric Dumazet, Florian Westphal,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman, Hans de Goede, Hans Verkuil, Heikki Krogerus,
	Herbert Xu, Ilpo Järvinen, Jakub Kicinski,
	James E.J. Bottomley, Jani Nikula, Jaroslav Kysela,
	Jason Gunthorpe, Jiri Pirko, Joerg Roedel (AMD), Johan Hovold,
	Jonathan Cameron, Joonas Lahtinen, Julian Anastasov,
	Leon Romanovsky, Liam Girdwood, Linus Walleij, Maarten Lankhorst,
	Mark Brown, Martin K. Petersen, Matthew Sakai,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Maxime Ripard, Michael Turquette,
	Mike Rapoport, Miri Korenblit, Nicolas Palix, Pablo Neira Ayuso,
	Paolo Abeni, Ping-Ke Shih, Rafael J. Wysocki, Rodrigo Vivi,
	Sebastian Reichel, Shuah Khan, Simona Vetter, Simon Horman,
	Stephen Boyd, Steve French, Takashi Iwai, Thomas Renninger,
	Thomas Zimmermann, Tony Luck, Tvrtko Ursulin, Vadim Fedorenko,
	Vinod Koul, Will Deacon, Yazen Ghannam
  Cc: cocci, amd-gfx, dmaengine, dm-devel, dri-devel, intel-gfx,
	intel-wired-lan, iommu, linux-cifs, linux-clk, linux-crypto,
	linux-edac, linux-gpio, linux-iio, linux-input, linux-kernel,
	linux-media, linux-mm, linux-pm, linux-rdma, linux-rtc,
	linux-s390, linux-scsi, linux-sound, linux-usb, linux-wireless,
	lvs-devel, netdev, netfilter-devel, nouveau, platform-driver-x86

Hello,

While reading mm/memblock, I found a conditional return where both
branches return the same value:

	err = do_something();
	if (err)
		return err;
	return err;

Such code is usually a leftover from removing a statement between
the two returns, and the tree has about a hundred of these.

Patch 1 adds a Coccinelle script that matches the pattern, including
negation and constant-comparison variants. Where a local variable is
assigned right before the check, the assignment and the two returns
turn into a single return of the assigned expression.

Patches 2-36 are generated by the script, with hand fixes to restore
unexpectedly removed comments and to fix the formatting checkpatch.pl
complained about.

The patches are grouped by subsystem instead of split per file. If
you would rather split, merge or drop your part, just let me know
and I will address it in the next version.

All patches are independent and can be applied separately, but for
everyone's convenience, it would be nice if they were merged through
a single tree.

The series is based on next-20260721.

Sang-Heon Jeon (36):
  coccinelle: misc: add cond_return_no_effect.cocci
  drm/amd: remove conditional return with no effect
  drm/radeon: remove conditional return with no effect
  dpll: zl3073x: remove conditional return with no effect
  drm/i915: remove conditional return with no effect
  drm: remove conditional return with no effect
  net: ethernet: remove conditional return with no effect
  net: remove conditional return with no effect
  net: intel: remove conditional return with no effect
  wifi: remove conditional return with no effect
  ipvs: remove conditional return with no effect
  media: remove conditional return with no effect
  ALSA: remove conditional return with no effect
  ASoC: remove conditional return with no effect
  iio: remove conditional return with no effect
  Input: remove conditional return with no effect
  clk: remove conditional return with no effect
  crypto: drivers - remove conditional return with no effect
  dmaengine: qcom_hidma: remove conditional return with no effect
  stm class: remove conditional return with no effect
  RDMA/ocrdma: remove conditional return with no effect
  iommu/s390: remove conditional return with no effect
  dm vdo: remove conditional return with no effect
  pinctrl: mediatek: remove conditional return with no effect
  platform/x86: toshiba_haps: remove conditional return with no effect
  power: supply: pm8916_lbc: remove conditional return with no effect
  RAS/AMD/ATL: remove conditional return with no effect
  regulator: wm831x-isink: remove conditional return with no effect
  rtc: pcf2127: remove conditional return with no effect
  scsi: mpt3sas: remove conditional return with no effect
  thermal/drivers/k3_bandgap: remove conditional return with no effect
  USB: serial: ch341: remove conditional return with no effect
  usb: typec: fusb302: remove conditional return with no effect
  smb: client: remove conditional return with no effect
  cpupower: remove conditional return with no effect
  memblock: remove conditional return with no effect

 drivers/clk/clk-cs2000-cp.c                   |   6 +-
 drivers/clk/clk-lmk04832.c                    |  12 +-
 .../intel/qat/qat_common/adf_gen2_config.c    |   8 +-
 .../marvell/octeontx2/otx2_cpt_mbox_common.c  |   7 +-
 drivers/dma/qcom/hidma_ll.c                   |   6 +-
 drivers/dpll/zl3073x/dpll.c                   |   6 +-
 drivers/dpll/zl3073x/out.c                    |   8 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gfx_v7_0.c         |   6 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gfx_v9_0.c         |   6 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gfx_v9_4_3.c       |   6 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/sdma_v4_4_2.c      |   6 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/sdma_v5_0.c        |   6 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/sdma_v5_2.c        |   6 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/sdma_v6_0.c        |   6 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/uvd_v4_2.c         |   6 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/uvd_v5_0.c         |   6 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/uvd_v7_0.c         |   6 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/vce_v4_0.c         |   6 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/pm/legacy-dpm/kv_dpm.c    |  32 ++---
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/pm/legacy-dpm/si_dpm.c    |   6 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/pm/swsmu/amdgpu_smu.c     |   6 +-
 .../gpu/drm/amd/pm/swsmu/smu11/arcturus_ppt.c |   6 +-
 .../gpu/drm/amd/pm/swsmu/smu11/navi10_ppt.c   |   6 +-
 .../gpu/drm/amd/pm/swsmu/smu11/smu_v11_0.c    |  19 +--
 .../gpu/drm/amd/pm/swsmu/smu11/vangogh_ppt.c  |   7 +-
 .../gpu/drm/amd/pm/swsmu/smu12/renoir_ppt.c   |   7 +-
 .../drm/amd/pm/swsmu/smu13/aldebaran_ppt.c    |   6 +-
 .../gpu/drm/amd/pm/swsmu/smu13/smu_v13_0.c    |  19 +--
 .../drm/amd/pm/swsmu/smu13/smu_v13_0_0_ppt.c  |   6 +-
 .../drm/amd/pm/swsmu/smu13/smu_v13_0_6_ppt.c  |  10 +-
 .../drm/amd/pm/swsmu/smu13/smu_v13_0_7_ppt.c  |   6 +-
 .../gpu/drm/amd/pm/swsmu/smu14/smu_v14_0.c    |  19 +--
 .../drm/amd/pm/swsmu/smu14/smu_v14_0_2_ppt.c  |   6 +-
 .../gpu/drm/amd/pm/swsmu/smu15/smu_v15_0.c    |   9 +-
 .../drm/amd/pm/swsmu/smu15/smu_v15_0_8_ppt.c  |  16 +--
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_hdmi.c     |   7 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/gtt.c                |   8 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/imx/ipuv3/imx-drm-core.c      |   6 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv50/disp.c       |  14 +-
 .../drm/panel/panel-osd-osd101t2587-53ts.c    |   7 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/ci_dpm.c               |   6 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/kv_dpm.c               |  30 ++---
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/si_dpm.c               |  14 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/tilcdc/tilcdc_drv.c           |   6 +-
 drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c                  |   8 +-
 drivers/iio/light/isl29028.c                  |   6 +-
 drivers/iio/light/tsl2583.c                   |  14 +-
 drivers/iio/magnetometer/ak8974.c             |   6 +-
 drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_verbs.c   |   7 +-
 drivers/input/keyboard/pmic8xxx-keypad.c      |   8 +-
 drivers/input/mouse/synaptics_i2c.c           |   6 +-
 drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_smbus.c                |   7 +-
 drivers/iommu/s390-iommu.c                    |   8 +-
 drivers/md/dm-vdo/encodings.c                 |   8 +-
 drivers/media/i2c/mt9p031.c                   |   6 +-
 .../microchip/microchip-sama7g5-isc.c         |   7 +-
 .../media/platform/qcom/iris/iris_resources.c |   6 +-
 .../media/platform/qcom/venus/pm_helpers.c    |   7 +-
 drivers/media/platform/renesas/rcar-csi2.c    |   6 +-
 .../platform/samsung/s3c-camif/camif-core.c   |   7 +-
 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf.c       |  12 +-
 drivers/media/usb/gspca/jl2005bcd.c           |   7 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_netdev.c  |   6 +-
 .../ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/aq_macsec.c    |   6 +-
 .../ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-switch.c   |   6 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c      |   6 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c   |   8 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_i210.c   |   6 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_phy.c      |   6 +-
 .../ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_hw.c    |   7 +-
 .../ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_init.c |   6 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/rtsn.c           |   7 +-
 drivers/net/phy/microchip_t1.c                |   6 +-
 drivers/net/pse-pd/tps23881.c                 |   6 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c        |   6 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/link.c |   6 +-
 .../wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c   |   7 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/mac.c      |   6 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/mac_be.c   |   6 +-
 .../pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mtk-common-v2.c  |   6 +-
 drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_haps.c           |   6 +-
 drivers/power/supply/pm8916_lbc.c             |   8 +-
 drivers/ras/amd/atl/map.c                     |   6 +-
 drivers/regulator/wm831x-isink.c              |   6 +-
 drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf2127.c                     |   7 +-
 drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c           |   6 +-
 drivers/thermal/k3_bandgap.c                  |   7 +-
 drivers/usb/serial/ch341.c                    |   8 +-
 drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/fusb302.c              |  14 +-
 fs/smb/client/smb1maperror.c                  |   6 +-
 mm/memblock.c                                 |   7 +-
 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sync.c               |   7 +-
 .../misc/cond_return_no_effect.cocci          | 121 ++++++++++++++++++
 sound/pci/echoaudio/echoaudio_dsp.c           |   6 +-
 sound/pci/echoaudio/layla24_dsp.c             |   6 +-
 sound/pci/riptide/riptide.c                   |   5 +-
 sound/soc/amd/acp/acp-mach-common.c           |  11 +-
 sound/soc/intel/atom/sst-mfld-platform-pcm.c  |   7 +-
 sound/soc/samsung/smdk_spdif.c                |   8 +-
 sound/soc/sof/intel/hda-dsp.c                 |   6 +-
 sound/usb/mixer_scarlett.c                    |  26 ++--
 tools/power/cpupower/utils/powercap-info.c    |   2 -
 102 files changed, 295 insertions(+), 643 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 scripts/coccinelle/misc/cond_return_no_effect.cocci

--
2.43.0


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* [PATCH 10/36] wifi: remove conditional return with no effect
  2026-07-23 18:45 [PATCH 00/36] treewide: remove conditional returns with no effect Sang-Heon Jeon
@ 2026-07-23 18:45 ` Sang-Heon Jeon
  2026-07-24  0:37   ` Ping-Ke Shih
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Sang-Heon Jeon @ 2026-07-23 18:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Julia.Lawall, Miri Korenblit, Ping-Ke Shih
  Cc: cocci, linux-kernel, linux-wireless

Both branches of the check return the same value, so the check has
no effect. Remove it and return the value directly.

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/misc/cond_return_no_effect.cocci.

Signed-off-by: Sang-Heon Jeon <ekffu200098@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c              | 6 +-----
 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/link.c       | 6 +-----
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c | 7 +------
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/mac.c            | 6 +-----
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/mac_be.c         | 6 +-----
 5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c
index 782209dcb782..61fa10d88714 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c
@@ -1566,11 +1566,7 @@ static int ath6kl_init_upload(struct ath6kl *ar)
 
 	address = MBOX_BASE_ADDRESS + LOCAL_SCRATCH_ADDRESS;
 	param = options | 0x20;
-	status = ath6kl_bmi_reg_write(ar, address, param);
-	if (status)
-		return status;
-
-	return status;
+	return ath6kl_bmi_reg_write(ar, address, param);
 }
 
 int ath6kl_init_hw_params(struct ath6kl *ar)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/link.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/link.c
index b5d252ece2d9..76a548f9aea2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/link.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/link.c
@@ -278,11 +278,7 @@ int iwl_mvm_disable_link(struct iwl_mvm *mvm, struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	ret = iwl_mvm_remove_link(mvm, vif, link_conf);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
-
-	return ret;
+	return iwl_mvm_remove_link(mvm, vif, link_conf);
 }
 
 void iwl_mvm_init_link(struct iwl_mvm_vif_link_info *link)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c
index 9b119a51bc30..1ba53e671207 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c
@@ -1462,12 +1462,7 @@ static bool _rtl8821ae_init_llt_table(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u32 boundary)
 			return status;
 	}
 
-	status = _rtl8821ae_llt_write(hw, last_entry_of_txpktbuf,
-				      txpktbuf_bndy);
-	if (!status)
-		return status;
-
-	return status;
+	return _rtl8821ae_llt_write(hw, last_entry_of_txpktbuf, txpktbuf_bndy);
 }
 
 static bool _rtl8821ae_dynamic_rqpn(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u32 boundary,
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/mac.c
index 8c395517bd2f..967b42f2b6fb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/mac.c
@@ -1706,11 +1706,7 @@ static int sys_init_ax(struct rtw89_dev *rtwdev)
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	ret = chip_func_en_ax(rtwdev);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
-
-	return ret;
+	return chip_func_en_ax(rtwdev);
 }
 
 const struct rtw89_mac_size_set rtw89_mac_size = {
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/mac_be.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/mac_be.c
index f24c119b99f1..b7ba8de9cc78 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/mac_be.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/mac_be.c
@@ -924,11 +924,7 @@ static int sys_init_be(struct rtw89_dev *rtwdev)
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	ret = chip_func_en_be(rtwdev);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
-
-	return ret;
+	return chip_func_en_be(rtwdev);
 }
 
 static int mac_func_en_be(struct rtw89_dev *rtwdev)
-- 
2.43.0


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* RE: [PATCH 10/36] wifi: remove conditional return with no effect
  2026-07-23 18:45 ` [PATCH 10/36] wifi: remove conditional return " Sang-Heon Jeon
@ 2026-07-24  0:37   ` Ping-Ke Shih
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ping-Ke Shih @ 2026-07-24  0:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Sang-Heon Jeon, Julia.Lawall@inria.fr, Miri Korenblit
  Cc: cocci@inria.fr, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org

Sang-Heon Jeon <ekffu200098@gmail.com> wrote:
> Both branches of the check return the same value, so the check has
> no effect. Remove it and return the value directly.
> 
> This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
> scripts/coccinelle/misc/cond_return_no_effect.cocci.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sang-Heon Jeon <ekffu200098@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c              | 6 +-----
>  drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/link.c       | 6 +-----
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c | 7 +------
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/mac.c            | 6 +-----
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/mac_be.c         | 6 +-----

Can you split into four patches for ath6k, iwlwifi, rtlwifi and rtw89?
Then we can apply the patch to individual tree. 

Ping-Ke


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