[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2] drm/i915: remove unnecessary null test

[Daniel Vetter]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 12:11:18PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 05:33:50PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 08:36:01PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > > While creating the debugfs file we are setting the inode->i_private to
> > > dev. That same dev is passed to these functions as private of struct
> > > seq_file via single_open(). So at this point it can never be NULL.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip at vectorindia.org>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > v1 was drm/i915: fix possible null pointer dereference
> > 
> > There's still one left in i915_displayport_test_active_write.
> I left it out intentionally as it was not used via single_open(). Will
> include that and send v3.

Well I didn't even read that far ;-) But ->write can only be called once
you opened the file, which means it will be set up already correctly too.
-Daniel

> >Also please mention the commit that introduced these and Cc: the author.
> > Also please Cc: Chris since he's commented on v1 of this patch.
> sure, Chris was Cc: in v2 and will Cc: him in v3 also.
> 
> regards
> sudip
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