Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] device property: Drop redundant NULL checks

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Oct 26 2021 - 12:53:03 EST


On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 6:30 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In cases when functions are called via fwnode operations,
> we already know that this is software node we are dealing
> with, hence no need to check if it's NULL, it can't be,
>
> Reported-by: YE Chengfeng <cyeaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>

or please let me know if I need to pick this up.

> ---
> drivers/base/swnode.c | 6 ------
> 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/swnode.c b/drivers/base/swnode.c
> index c46f6a8e14d2..4debcea4fb12 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/swnode.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/swnode.c
> @@ -413,9 +413,6 @@ software_node_get_name(const struct fwnode_handle *fwnode)
> {
> const struct swnode *swnode = to_swnode(fwnode);
>
> - if (!swnode)
> - return "(null)";
> -
> return kobject_name(&swnode->kobj);
> }
>
> @@ -507,9 +504,6 @@ software_node_get_reference_args(const struct fwnode_handle *fwnode,
> int error;
> int i;
>
> - if (!swnode)
> - return -ENOENT;
> -
> prop = property_entry_get(swnode->node->properties, propname);
> if (!prop)
> return -ENOENT;
> --
> 2.33.0
>