Hi Guenter,

Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> writes:
> The parameters passed to allow_link and drop_link functions are never NULL.
> That means the result of container_of() on those parameters is also
> never NULL, even if the reference into the structure points to the first
> element of the structure. Remove the subsequent NULL checks.
>
> The changes in this patch were made automatically using the following
> Coccinelle script.
>
> @@
> type t;
> identifier v;
> statement s;
> @@
>
> <+...
> (
>   t v = container_of(...);
> |
>   v = container_of(...);
> )
>   ...
>   when != v
> - if (\( !v \| v == NULL \) ) s
> ...+>
>
> Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> ---
> After the recent discussion about a patch which tried to add a check
> against NULL after container_of(), I realized that there are a number
> of such checks in the kernel.
>
> Now the big question: Are patches like this acceptable, or do they count
> as noise ?

Not noise in my book :-)

Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>

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balbi