Re: [PATCH] fpga: fpga-bridge: remove unnecessary null check in of_fpga_bridge_get

From: Alan Tull
Date: Mon Oct 30 2017 - 16:34:54 EST


On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 12:15 PM, Moritz Fischer <mdf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Gustavo,

Thanks!

Alan

> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 08:19:51PM +0000, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>> Notice that bridge = to_fpga_bridge(dev); expands to:
>>
>> bridge = container_of(dev, struct fpga_bridge, dev);
>>
>> and container_of is never null, so this null check is
>> unnecessary.
>>
>> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1397912
>> Reported-by: Alan Tull <atull@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Moritz Fischer <mdf@xxxxxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Alan Tull <atull@xxxxxxxxxx>

>> ---
>> drivers/fpga/fpga-bridge.c | 2 --
>> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/fpga/fpga-bridge.c b/drivers/fpga/fpga-bridge.c
>> index 9651aa5..409d1ac 100644
>> --- a/drivers/fpga/fpga-bridge.c
>> +++ b/drivers/fpga/fpga-bridge.c
>> @@ -94,8 +94,6 @@ struct fpga_bridge *of_fpga_bridge_get(struct device_node *np,
>> goto err_dev;
>>
>> bridge = to_fpga_bridge(dev);
>> - if (!bridge)
>> - goto err_dev;
>>
>> bridge->info = info;
>>
>> --
>> 2.7.4
>>
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>
> Thanks for the fix,
>
> Moritz