Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] tty: Drop duplicate NULL check in TTY port functions

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Feb 03 2022 - 05:41:06 EST


On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 09:36:55AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 02. 02. 22, 17:57, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > The free_page(addr), which becomes free_pages(addr, 0) checks addr against 0.
> > No need to repeat this check in the callers, i.e. tty_port_free_xmit_buf()
> > and tty_port_destructor().
> >
> > Note, INIT_KFIFO() is safe without that check, because it's aware of kfifo PTR
> > versus embedded kfifo.
>
> Not sure what you mean here ^^^? But it might be one of the morning brain
> parser errors.

Or maybe my evening weren't working...

Actually INIT_KFIFO() can be outside of that check from day 1 because it
operates on a separate member and does not rely on the FIFO itself to be
allocated.

I tried to explain that, while kfifo allocation goes together with buffer,
there is no dependency to any of those allocations.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko