[PATCH 1/5] drivers/char/hvc_console.c: Drop unnecessary NULL test

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Sun Jul 12 2009 - 16:10:29 EST


From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

The result of container_of should not be NULL. In particular, in this case
the argument to the enclosing function has passed though INIT_WORK, which
dereferences it, implying that its container cannot be NULL.

A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as
follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@@
identifier fn,work,x,fld;
type T;
expression E1,E2;
statement S;
@@

static fn(struct work_struct *work) {
... when != work = E1
x = container_of(work,T,fld)
... when != x = E2
- if (x == NULL) S
...
}
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

---
drivers/char/hvc_console.c | 2 --
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hvc_console.c b/drivers/char/hvc_console.c
index 94e7e3c..e367630 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hvc_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hvc_console.c
@@ -516,8 +516,6 @@ static void hvc_set_winsz(struct work_struct *work)
struct winsize ws;

hp = container_of(work, struct hvc_struct, tty_resize);
- if (!hp)
- return;

spin_lock_irqsave(&hp->lock, hvc_flags);
if (!hp->tty) {
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