From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757163AbaHHOih (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2014 10:38:37 -0400 Received: from mx01-fr.bfs.de ([193.174.231.67]:4896 "EHLO mx01-fr.bfs.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757134AbaHHOic (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2014 10:38:32 -0400 Message-ID: <53E4E0DD.2020901@bfs.de> Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 16:38:21 +0200 From: walter harms Reply-To: wharms@bfs.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101125 SUSE/3.0.11 Thunderbird/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julia Lawall CC: Adaptec OEM Raid Solutions , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, "James E.J. Bottomley" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, joe@perches.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] dpt_i2o: delete unnecessary null test on array References: <1407321551-27479-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> <1407321551-27479-2-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> In-Reply-To: <1407321551-27479-2-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 06.08.2014 12:39, schrieb Julia Lawall: > From: Julia Lawall > > Delete NULL test on array (always false). > > A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as > follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) > > // > @r@ > type T; > T [] e; > position p; > @@ > e ==@p NULL > > @ disable fld_to_ptr@ > expression e; > identifier f; > position r.p; > @@ > * e.f ==@p NULL > // > > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall > > --- > I don't know if this is the correct change, or if some other test was > intended. But the code has been this way since at least 2.4.20, so it > would seem that no one has been bothered by the lack of whatever this was > supposed to test for. > > drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c | 5 ----- > 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c b/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c > index 67283ef..62e276b 100644 > --- a/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c > +++ b/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c > @@ -1169,11 +1169,6 @@ static struct adpt_device* adpt_find_device(adpt_hba* pHba, u32 chan, u32 id, u6 > if(chan < 0 || chan >= MAX_CHANNEL) > return NULL; > chan is u32 and u32 < 0 ? for the next round. re, wh > - if( pHba->channel[chan].device == NULL){ > - printk(KERN_DEBUG"Adaptec I2O RAID: Trying to find device before they are allocated\n"); > - return NULL; > - } > - > d = pHba->channel[chan].device[id]; > if(!d || d->tid == 0) { > return NULL; > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >