[PATCH 1/2] VMCI: drop condition with no effect

From: Nicholas Mc Guire
Date: Sun Nov 06 2016 - 07:55:33 EST


The condition calls the same code, further the code called does not
differentiate between old/new-style VMX anyway so the if/else here
is simply not needed.

Fixes: 06164d2b72aa ("VMCI: queue pairs implementation.")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx>
---

problem found by coccinelle

drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c:vmci_qp_broker_detach()
2232 if (entry->vmci_page_files)
2233 qp_host_unregister_user_memory(entry->produce_q,
2234 entry->
2235 consume_q);
2236 else
2237 qp_host_unregister_user_memory(entry->produce_q,
2238 entry->
2239 consume_q);

The original driver code was calling:
if (entry->vmciPageFiles) {
VMCIHost_ReleaseUserMemory(entry->produceQ,
entry->consumeQ);
} else {
VMCIHost_UnregisterUserMemory(entry->produceQ,
entry->consumeQ);
}
but the VMCIHost_ReleaseUserMemory equivalent function seems to not
have ever existed in the mainline Linus version of the driver so the
differentiation no longer is needed.

The difference handled by setting vmci_page_files is old-style and
new-style VMX but the qp_host_unregister_user_memory and the there
called qp_release_pages() are not differentiating between old and
new style VMX so it does not seem to be a missing parameter and
from the documentation it seems that the unregister function is to
be called after unmapping - so this if/else here seems to make no
sense - from code review I suspect it can be dropped but this would
need confirmation by someone that understands the details of the
driver.

The documentation at the top of the file also seems to be a bit out of
date/inconsistent with respect to old-style/new-style VMX (or Im just
not understanding it).

Patch was compile checked with: x86_64_defconfig + CONFIG_VMWARE_VMCI=m

Patch is against 4.9.0-rc2 (localversion-next is next-20161028)

drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c | 10 ++--------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c
index f84a427..6f6069c 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c
@@ -2229,14 +2229,8 @@ int vmci_qp_broker_detach(struct vmci_handle handle, struct vmci_ctx *context)
handle.context, handle.resource,
result);

- if (entry->vmci_page_files)
- qp_host_unregister_user_memory(entry->produce_q,
- entry->
- consume_q);
- else
- qp_host_unregister_user_memory(entry->produce_q,
- entry->
- consume_q);
+ qp_host_unregister_user_memory(entry->produce_q,
+ entry->consume_q);

}

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