Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH 1/2] staging: rtl8712: Rewrite NULL comparisons

[Julia Lawall]

On Tue, 6 Apr 2021, Zhansaya Bagdauletkyzy wrote:

> Replace NULL comparisons with boolean negation.

This summarizes concisely what you did, which is helpful, but you could
also say why.  For example, to make the code more concise or to improve
readability or for consistency with the rest of the code base.

julia

> Reported by checkpatch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhansaya Bagdauletkyzy <zhansayabagdaulet@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.h | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.h b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.h
> index 7c9995060a6f..4aa39f4f3b84 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.h
> @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ int recv_func(struct _adapter *padapter, void *pcontext);
>  static inline u8 *get_rxmem(union recv_frame *precvframe)
>  {
>  	/* always return rx_head... */
> -	if (precvframe == NULL)
> +	if (!precvframe)
>  		return NULL;
>  	return precvframe->u.hdr.rx_head;
>  }
> @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ static inline u8 *get_rxmem(union recv_frame *precvframe)
>  static inline u8 *get_recvframe_data(union recv_frame *precvframe)
>  {
>  	/* always return rx_data */
> -	if (precvframe == NULL)
> +	if (!precvframe)
>  		return NULL;
>  	return precvframe->u.hdr.rx_data;
>  }
> @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ static inline u8 *recvframe_pull(union recv_frame *precvframe, sint sz)
>  	/* used for extract sz bytes from rx_data, update rx_data and return
>  	 * the updated rx_data to the caller
>  	 */
> -	if (precvframe == NULL)
> +	if (!precvframe)
>  		return NULL;
>  	precvframe->u.hdr.rx_data += sz;
>  	if (precvframe->u.hdr.rx_data > precvframe->u.hdr.rx_tail) {
> @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ static inline u8 *recvframe_put(union recv_frame *precvframe, sint sz)
>  	 * return the updated rx_tail to the caller
>  	 * after putting, rx_tail must be still larger than rx_end.
>  	 */
> -	if (precvframe == NULL)
> +	if (!precvframe)
>  		return NULL;
>  	precvframe->u.hdr.rx_tail += sz;
>  	if (precvframe->u.hdr.rx_tail > precvframe->u.hdr.rx_end) {
> @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ static inline u8 *recvframe_pull_tail(union recv_frame *precvframe, sint sz)
>  	 * updated rx_end to the caller
>  	 * after pulling, rx_end must be still larger than rx_data.
>  	 */
> -	if (precvframe == NULL)
> +	if (!precvframe)
>  		return NULL;
>  	precvframe->u.hdr.rx_tail -= sz;
>  	if (precvframe->u.hdr.rx_tail < precvframe->u.hdr.rx_data) {
> --
> 2.25.1
>
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