Re: [PATCH 3/5] drivers/isdn: Drop unnecessary NULL test

From: Karsten Keil
Date: Fri Jul 24 2009 - 06:55:43 EST



ACK, thanks for spotting this.

I will include this in my next patchset.

Karsten

On Sonntag, 12. Juli 2009 22:05:03 Julia Lawall wrote:
> 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/isdn/hisax/amd7930_fn.c | 2 --
> drivers/isdn/hisax/hfc_pci.c | 2 --
> drivers/isdn/hisax/hfc_sx.c | 2 --
> drivers/isdn/hisax/icc.c | 2 --
> drivers/isdn/hisax/isac.c | 2 --
> drivers/isdn/hisax/w6692.c | 2 --
> 6 files changed, 12 deletions(-)
...

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