Re: [PATCH v2 26/31] staging/comedi/das16: Make timer initialization unconditional

From: Ian Abbott
Date: Thu Sep 21 2017 - 06:33:30 EST


On 21/09/17 00:27, Kees Cook wrote:
With timer initialization made unconditional, there is no reason to
make del_timer_sync() calls conditionally, there by removing the test
of the .data field.

Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das16.c | 10 ++++------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das16.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das16.c
index 5d157951f63f..2b2a446af3f5 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das16.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das16.c
@@ -934,6 +934,9 @@ static void das16_alloc_dma(struct comedi_device *dev, unsigned int dma_chan)
{
struct das16_private_struct *devpriv = dev->private;
+ setup_timer(&devpriv->timer, das16_timer_interrupt,
+ (unsigned long)dev);
+
/* only DMA channels 3 and 1 are valid */
if (!(dma_chan == 1 || dma_chan == 3))
return;
@@ -941,10 +944,6 @@ static void das16_alloc_dma(struct comedi_device *dev, unsigned int dma_chan)
/* DMA uses two buffers */
devpriv->dma = comedi_isadma_alloc(dev, 2, dma_chan, dma_chan,
DAS16_DMA_SIZE, COMEDI_ISADMA_READ);
- if (devpriv->dma) {
- setup_timer(&devpriv->timer, das16_timer_interrupt,
- (unsigned long)dev);
- }
}
static void das16_free_dma(struct comedi_device *dev)
@@ -952,8 +951,7 @@ static void das16_free_dma(struct comedi_device *dev)
struct das16_private_struct *devpriv = dev->private;
if (devpriv) {
- if (devpriv->timer.data)
- del_timer_sync(&devpriv->timer);
+ del_timer_sync(&devpriv->timer);
comedi_isadma_free(devpriv->dma);
}
}


That's fine.

Reviewed-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>

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