Re: net: rnpgbe: Pass an expression directly in rnpgbe_rm_adapter()

Andrew Lunn <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:43:12 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.kernel-janitors,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 04:34:05PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 03:24:22PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 11:48:43AM +0200, Markus Elfring wrote:
> > > > In C writing if (!p) and if (p == NULL) are always equivalent but weirdly
> > > > the NULL doesn't have to zero.  It's part of the C FAQ.
> > > > https://c-faq.com/null/machexamp.html It's just a bit of fun trivia that
> > > > doesn't really matter unless you have a time machine.  Even if you invented
> > > > a time machine, the code here would still be fine because we have a NULL
> > > > test before dereferencing the results of our pointer math.
> > > Which expression evaluations would you interpret as pointer dereferences finally?
> > > https://c-faq.com/sx1/
> > 
> > This is all interesting, but nobody has yet explain how this function
> > can be called such that we have a NULL pointer.
> 
> mucse cannot be NULL.
> 
> We call pci_set_drvdata() during probe() and it is still valid when
> we call the remove() function.

Same as what i thought. So while this is an interesting discussion,
please could someone post the real fix, remove the NULL pointer check.

       Andrew