Re: [PATCH v3] ACPI/PCI: Remove useless NULL pointer checks

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Jul 27 2022 - 15:23:51 EST


On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 4:12 PM Andrey Strachuk <strochuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Local variable 'p' is initialized by an address of field of acpi_resource,
> so it does not make sense to compare 'p' with NULL.
>
> Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Strachuk <strochuk@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/pci_link.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/pci_link.c b/drivers/acpi/pci_link.c
> index 58647051c948..aa1038b8aec4 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/pci_link.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/pci_link.c
> @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static acpi_status acpi_pci_link_check_possible(struct acpi_resource *resource,
> case ACPI_RESOURCE_TYPE_IRQ:
> {
> struct acpi_resource_irq *p = &resource->data.irq;
> - if (!p || !p->interrupt_count) {
> + if (!p->interrupt_count) {
> acpi_handle_debug(handle,
> "Blank _PRS IRQ resource\n");
> return AE_OK;
> @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ static acpi_status acpi_pci_link_check_possible(struct acpi_resource *resource,
> {
> struct acpi_resource_extended_irq *p =
> &resource->data.extended_irq;
> - if (!p || !p->interrupt_count) {
> + if (!p->interrupt_count) {
> acpi_handle_debug(handle,
> "Blank _PRS EXT IRQ resource\n");
> return AE_OK;
> @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ static acpi_status acpi_pci_link_check_current(struct acpi_resource *resource,
> case ACPI_RESOURCE_TYPE_IRQ:
> {
> struct acpi_resource_irq *p = &resource->data.irq;
> - if (!p || !p->interrupt_count) {
> + if (!p->interrupt_count) {
> /*
> * IRQ descriptors may have no IRQ# bits set,
> * particularly those w/ _STA disabled
> @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ static acpi_status acpi_pci_link_check_current(struct acpi_resource *resource,
> {
> struct acpi_resource_extended_irq *p =
> &resource->data.extended_irq;
> - if (!p || !p->interrupt_count) {
> + if (!p->interrupt_count) {
> /*
> * extended IRQ descriptors must
> * return at least 1 IRQ
> --

Applied as 5.20 material with the R-by tag from Bjorn which is still
applicable AFAICS.

Thanks!