Re: [PATCH] ixp4xx_eth: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "dma_pool_destroy"

From: Krzysztof HaÅasa
Date: Wed Nov 25 2015 - 07:19:20 EST


SF Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The dma_pool_destroy() function tests whether its argument is NULL
> and then returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed.
>
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/xscale/ixp4xx_eth.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/xscale/ixp4xx_eth.c
> @@ -1192,7 +1192,7 @@ static void destroy_queues(struct port *port)
> port->desc_tab = NULL;
> }
>
> - if (!ports_open && dma_pool) {
> + if (!ports_open) {
> dma_pool_destroy(dma_pool);
> dma_pool = NULL;
> }

Acked-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khalasa@xxxxxxx>
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Krzysztof Halasa

Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP
Al. Jerozolimskie 202, 02-486 Warsaw, Poland
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