From: paul@pwsan.com (Paul Walmsley)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: OMAP2: Delete unnecessary checks before three function calls
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:06:44 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1507161406190.12339@utopia.booyaka.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150716062305.GF17550@atomide.com>
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com> [150715 22:58]:
> > Hello Markus
> >
> > On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> >
> > > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> > > Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 14:00:16 +0200
> > >
> > > The functions clk_disable(), of_node_put() and omap_device_delete() test
> > > whether their argument is NULL and then return immediately.
> > > Thus the test around the call is not needed.
> > >
> > > This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> >
> > Thanks for the patch. I have to say, I am a bit leery about applying the
> > omap_device.c and omap_hwmod.c changes, since the called functions --
> > omap_device_delete() and clk_disable() -- don't explicitly document that
> > NULLs are allowed to be passed in. So there's no explicit contract that
> > callers can rely upon, to (at least in theory) prevent those internal NULL
> > pointer checks from being removed.
> >
> > So I would suggest that those two functions' kerneldoc be patched first to
> > explicitly state that passing in a NULL pointer is allowed. Then I would
> > feel a bit more comfortable applying the omap_device.c and omap_hwmod.c
> > changes.
> >
> > The kerneldoc for of_node_put() does explicitly allow NULLs to be passed
> > in. So I'll apply that change now for v4.3, touching up the commit
> > message accordingly.
>
> I have them applied from a later thread already, but will drop both in
> my branch as I have not pushed them out yet.
Oops sorry about stepping on your toes - I obviously missed that followup.
- Paul
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2014-11-20 10:50 ` [PATCH 1/1] [media] platform: Deletion of unnecessary checks before two function calls SF Markus Elfring
2014-11-20 13:50 ` [PATCH 1/1] net: Xilinx: " SF Markus Elfring
2014-11-20 17:29 ` Sören Brinkmann
2014-11-21 20:14 ` David Miller
2014-11-21 10:12 ` [PATCH 1/1] thermal: Exynos: " SF Markus Elfring
2014-11-21 10:17 ` Julia Lawall
2014-11-21 13:25 ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-11-21 16:17 ` [PATCH v2] " SF Markus Elfring
2014-11-22 10:00 ` [PATCH 1/1] ARM: OMAP2: Deletion of unnecessary checks before three " SF Markus Elfring
2015-06-30 12:10 ` [PATCH] ARM: OMAP2: Delete " SF Markus Elfring
2015-07-16 5:55 ` Paul Walmsley
2015-07-16 6:23 ` Tony Lindgren
2015-07-16 14:06 ` Paul Walmsley [this message]
2015-07-16 16:28 ` Tony Lindgren
2015-07-16 6:40 ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-11-22 10:40 ` [PATCH 1/1] ARM-kernel: Deletion of unnecessary checks before two " SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-03 8:15 ` [PATCH] ARM: DaVinci: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "__clk_disable" SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-03 9:10 ` SF Markus Elfring
2015-02-04 21:00 ` [PATCH] GPU-DRM-Exynos: Delete unnecessary checks before two function calls SF Markus Elfring
2015-02-05 8:29 ` Joonyoung Shim
2015-06-27 17:17 ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-07-21 17:42 ` [PATCH] GPU-DRM-Exynos: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "vunmap" SF Markus Elfring
2016-07-21 18:07 ` Sean Paul
2015-06-25 11:33 ` [PATCH 0/2] ARM-OMAP2+: Deletion of unnecessary checks before two function calls SF Markus Elfring
2015-06-25 11:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM-OMAP2+: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "omap_device_delete" SF Markus Elfring
2015-06-25 11:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM-OMAP2+: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "of_node_put" SF Markus Elfring
2015-07-15 6:41 ` [PATCH 0/2] ARM-OMAP2+: Deletion of unnecessary checks before two function calls Tony Lindgren
2015-06-25 13:27 ` [PATCH 0/2] ARM-kernel: " SF Markus Elfring
2015-06-25 13:30 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM-kernel: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "smp_set_ops" SF Markus Elfring
2015-06-25 13:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM-kernel: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "unwind_table_del" SF Markus Elfring
2015-06-28 14:05 ` [PATCH] iommu/arm-smmu: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "free_io_pgtable_ops" SF Markus Elfring
2015-11-06 17:38 ` [PATCH] iommu/arm-smmu: Delete an unnecessary check before free_io_pgtable_ops() SF Markus Elfring
2015-06-28 14:52 ` [PATCH] PCI-iproc: Delete unnecessary checks before two function calls SF Markus Elfring
2015-06-29 16:45 ` Ray Jui
2015-07-14 20:10 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-07-14 20:23 ` Ray Jui
2015-07-14 20:51 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-07-14 20:53 ` Ray Jui
2015-06-29 10:48 ` [PATCH] net-Liquidio: Delete unnecessary checks before the function call "vfree" SF Markus Elfring
2015-06-29 16:28 ` David Miller
2015-11-05 16:17 ` [PATCH] pinctrl: Delete unnecessary checks before the function call "pinctrl_unregister" SF Markus Elfring
2015-11-05 16:53 ` Ray Jui
2015-11-17 10:50 ` Linus Walleij
2015-11-05 18:45 ` [PATCH 0/2] [media] c8sectpfe: Deletion of a few unnecessary checks SF Markus Elfring
2015-11-05 18:49 ` [PATCH 1/2] [media] c8sectpfe: Delete unnecessary checks before two function calls SF Markus Elfring
2015-11-05 18:50 ` [PATCH 2/2] [media] c8sectpfe: Combine three checks into a single if block SF Markus Elfring
2015-11-06 10:09 ` walter harms
2015-11-06 7:50 ` [PATCH 0/2] [media] c8sectpfe: Deletion of a few unnecessary checks Maxime Coquelin
2015-11-16 21:20 ` [PATCH 0/3] ste_dma40: " SF Markus Elfring
2015-11-16 21:23 ` [PATCH 1/3] ste_dma40: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kmem_cache_destroy" SF Markus Elfring
2015-11-29 21:26 ` Linus Walleij
2015-11-16 21:24 ` [PATCH 2/3] ste_dma40: Delete another unnecessary check in d40_probe() SF Markus Elfring
2015-11-29 21:28 ` Linus Walleij
2015-11-16 21:26 ` [PATCH 3/3] ste_dma40: Delete an unnecessary variable initialisation " SF Markus Elfring
2015-11-29 21:29 ` Linus Walleij
2015-12-10 3:47 ` [PATCH 0/3] ste_dma40: Deletion of a few unnecessary checks Vinod Koul
2016-07-15 13:35 ` [PATCH] drm/rockchip: Delete an unnecessary check before drm_gem_object_unreference_unlocked() SF Markus Elfring
2016-07-19 1:59 ` Mark yao
2016-07-20 16:40 ` [PATCH] GPU-DRM-sun4i: Delete an unnecessary check before drm_fbdev_cma_hotplug_event() SF Markus Elfring
2016-07-20 17:47 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-07-22 10:56 ` [PATCH] GPU-DRM: Delete an unnecessary check before drm_property_unreference_blob() SF Markus Elfring
2016-07-25 8:43 ` Matthias Brugger
2016-07-23 18:08 ` [PATCH] coresight: tmc: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree" SF Markus Elfring
2016-07-25 16:36 ` Mathieu Poirier
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