Re: [PATCH] IPC-mqueue: Delete unnecessary checks before two function calls

From: SF Markus Elfring
Date: Mon Jul 18 2016 - 15:42:55 EST


> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 17:55:25 +0100
>
> The functions iput() and unregister_sysctl_table() test whether their
> argument is NULL and then return immediately.
> Thus the tests around their calls are not needed.
>
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> ipc/mqueue.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/ipc/mqueue.c b/ipc/mqueue.c
> index 161a180..ade9dd8 100644
> --- a/ipc/mqueue.c
> +++ b/ipc/mqueue.c
> @@ -885,8 +885,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(mq_unlink, const char __user *, u_name)
>
> out_unlock:
> mutex_unlock(&d_inode(mnt->mnt_root)->i_mutex);
> - if (inode)
> - iput(inode);
> + iput(inode);
> mnt_drop_write(mnt);
> out_name:
> putname(name);
> @@ -1460,8 +1459,7 @@ static int __init init_mqueue_fs(void)
> out_filesystem:
> unregister_filesystem(&mqueue_fs_type);
> out_sysctl:
> - if (mq_sysctl_table)
> - unregister_sysctl_table(mq_sysctl_table);
> + unregister_sysctl_table(mq_sysctl_table);
> kmem_cache_destroy(mqueue_inode_cachep);
> return error;
> }
>

How do you think about to integrate this update suggestion
into another source code repository?

Regards,
Markus