Re: [PATCH] vhost: vdpa: remove unnecessary null check

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Tue Mar 31 2020 - 10:03:34 EST


On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 06:50:40PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> container_of is never null, so this null check is
> unnecessary.
>
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1492006 ("Logically dead code")
> Fixes: 20453a45fb06 ("vhost: introduce vDPA-based backend")
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Yes weird. Was the point to test i_cdev? Tiwei?

> ---
> drivers/vhost/vdpa.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c b/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c
> index 421f02a8530a..3d2cb811757a 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c
> @@ -678,8 +678,6 @@ static int vhost_vdpa_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filep)
> int nvqs, i, r, opened;
>
> v = container_of(inode->i_cdev, struct vhost_vdpa, cdev);
> - if (!v)
> - return -ENODEV;
>
> opened = atomic_cmpxchg(&v->opened, 0, 1);
> if (opened)
> --
> 2.26.0