sibyte: pointless if tests

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sat Feb 24 2024 - 17:28:53 EST


A checkpatch modification was suggested privately about
braces around an if test like

if (foo)
;

so I thought I'd see how many of these possibly pointless
if tests exist. There aren't many.

Here are a couple in sibyte:

Maybe this should be documented as:

"well, don't know what to do here"

$ cat if_semi.cocci
@@
expression e;
@@

* if (e) ;

$ spatch --very-quiet -sp-file if_semi.cocci .
diff -u -p ./arch/mips/sibyte/common/cfe_console.c /tmp/nothing/arch/mips/sibyte/common/cfe_console.c
--- ./arch/mips/sibyte/common/cfe_console.c
+++ /tmp/nothing/arch/mips/sibyte/common/cfe_console.c
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@ static void cfe_console_write(struct con
if (str[i] == '\n') {
do {
written = cfe_write(cfe_cons_handle, &str[last], i-last);
- if (written < 0)
- ;
last += written;
} while (last < i);
while (cfe_write(cfe_cons_handle, "\r", 1) <= 0)
@@ -33,8 +31,6 @@ static void cfe_console_write(struct con
if (last != count) {
do {
written = cfe_write(cfe_cons_handle, &str[last], count-last);
- if (written < 0)
- ;
last += written;
} while (last < count);
}