Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] staging: media: Remove duplicate NULL tests on a value in pci

Hans de Goede <[email protected]> Thu, 1 May 2025 16:16:39 +0200
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.outreachy,dev.linux.lists.linux-staging,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On 3-Apr-25 3:26 PM, Abraham Samuel Adekunle wrote:
> When a value has been tested for NULL in an expression, a
> second NULL test on the same value in another expression
> is unnecessary when the value has not been assigned NULL.
> 
> Remove unnecessary duplicate NULL tests on the same value that
> has previously been NULL tested.
> 
> Found by Coccinelle
> 
> Signed-off-by: Abraham Samuel Adekunle <[email protected]>

Thank you for your patch.

I have merged this in my media-atomisp branch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hansg/linux.git/log/?h=media-atomisp

And this patch will be included in my next
pull-request to Mauro (to media subsystem maintainer)

Regards,

Hans




> ---
>  drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp_gmin_platform.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp_gmin_platform.c b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp_gmin_platform.c
> index e176483df301..0abac820299a 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp_gmin_platform.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp_gmin_platform.c
> @@ -1292,7 +1292,7 @@ static int gmin_get_config_dsm_var(struct device *dev,
>  	 * if it founds something different than string, letting it
>  	 * to fall back to the old code.
>  	 */
> -	if (cur && cur->type != ACPI_TYPE_STRING) {
> +	if (cur->type != ACPI_TYPE_STRING) {
>  		dev_info(dev, "found non-string _DSM entry for '%s'\n", var);
>  		ACPI_FREE(obj);
>  		return -EINVAL;