[PATCH 02/13] drm/mgag200: Remove unecessary NULL check in gem_free

Ian Romanick idr at freedesktop.org
Mon Apr 7 08:23:43 PDT 2014


On 04/05/2014 02:44 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> The ->gem_free_object never gets called with a NULL pointer, the check
> is redundant. Also checking after the upcast allows compilers to elide
> it anyway.

Right... because if obj was NULL, subtracting some offset from it won't
still be NULL.

> Spotted by coverity.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>

Reviewed-by: Ian Romanick <ian.d.romanick at intel.com>

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_main.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_main.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_main.c
> index 0722d18992f4..f6b283b8375e 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_main.c
> @@ -329,8 +329,6 @@ void mgag200_gem_free_object(struct drm_gem_object *obj)
>  {
>  	struct mgag200_bo *mgag200_bo = gem_to_mga_bo(obj);
>  
> -	if (!mgag200_bo)
> -		return;
>  	mgag200_bo_unref(&mgag200_bo);
>  }
>  
> 



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