Re: [PATCH] no more need to check for NULL before calls to crypto_free_tfm

[Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>]

On 7/18/05, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:32:27AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> >
> > --- linux-2.6.13-rc3-orig/drivers/block/cryptoloop.c  2005-06-17 21:48:29.000000000 +0200
> > +++ linux-2.6.13-rc3/drivers/block/cryptoloop.c       2005-07-16 23:35:55.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -227,14 +227,14 @@ cryptoloop_ioctl(struct loop_device *lo,
> >  static int
> >  cryptoloop_release(struct loop_device *lo)
> >  {
> > -     struct crypto_tfm *tfm = (struct crypto_tfm *) lo->key_data;
> > -     if (tfm != NULL) {
> > -             crypto_free_tfm(tfm);
> > -             lo->key_data = NULL;
> > -             return 0;
> > +     struct crypto_tfm *tfm = lo->key_data;
> > +     if (!tfm) {
> > +             printk(KERN_ERR "cryptoloop_release(): tfm == NULL?\n");
> > +             return -EINVAL;
> >       }
> > -     printk(KERN_ERR "cryptoloop_release(): tfm == NULL?\n");
> > -     return -EINVAL;
> > +     crypto_free_tfm(tfm);
> > +     lo->key_data = NULL;
> > +     return 0;
> >  }
> 
> This change looks rather pointless.
> 
Hmm, I guess you're right. Dunno why I reordered that, but you are
right, it's pretty pointless. Except for getting rid of the cast, that
makes sense, it's superfluous so it should go away...

> The rest of the patch looks good.
> 
> Thanks,

You're welcome. Thank you for reviewing it.


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