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From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Cc: Cong Ding <dinggnu@gmail.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
	Omar Ramirez Luna <omar.luna@linaro.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iommu: omap-iommu.c: remove unnecessary null pointer check
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:17:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130122201752.GS22517@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK=WgbbW+Kje8fMNmSAy+qM6sLcoqZcLcev8w115BfGrQzHk2A@mail.gmail.com>

* Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> [130118 12:58]:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Cong Ding <dinggnu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The pointer obj is dereferenced in line 146 and 149 respectively, so it is not
> > necessary to check null again in line 149 and 175. And I have checked that all
> > the callers of these two functions guarantee the parameter obj passed is not
> > null.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Cong Ding <dinggnu@gmail.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>

Yes looks like that's a pointless check and would already obj being NULL would
fail earlier in those functions:

Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-22 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-18 20:42 [PATCH] iommu: omap-iommu.c: remove unnecessary null pointer check Cong Ding
2013-01-18 20:55 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2013-01-22 20:17   ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2013-01-28 14:22 ` Joerg Roedel

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