Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: media: Remove NULL test on an already tested value

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Apr 03 2025 - 01:19:34 EST


On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 2:30 AM Abraham Samuel Adekunle
<abrahamadekunle50@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When a value has been tested for NULL in an expression, a
> second NULL test on the same value in another expression
> is unnecessary when the value has not been assigned NULL.
>
> Remove unnecessary duplicate NULL tests on the same value that
> has previously been NULL tested.

> drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp_gmin_platform.c | 2 +-
> drivers/staging/media/av7110/sp8870.c | 2 +-

Please, split this on per driver basis, as they have different
maintainers and trees to go through.

...

> --- a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp_gmin_platform.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp_gmin_platform.c
> @@ -1292,7 +1292,7 @@ static int gmin_get_config_dsm_var(struct device *dev,
> * if it founds something different than string, letting it
> * to fall back to the old code.
> */
> - if (cur && cur->type != ACPI_TYPE_STRING) {
> + if (cur->type != ACPI_TYPE_STRING) {
> dev_info(dev, "found non-string _DSM entry for '%s'\n", var);
> ACPI_FREE(obj);
> return -EINVAL;

This change is good.

...

> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/av7110/sp8870.c b/drivers/staging/media/av7110/sp8870.c
> index 0c813860f5b2..8c5fa5ed5340 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/media/av7110/sp8870.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/av7110/sp8870.c
> @@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ static int sp8870_set_frontend(struct dvb_frontend *fe)
> }
>
> if (debug) {
> - if (valid) {
> + {
> if (trials > 1) {
> pr_info("%s(): firmware lockup!!!\n", __func__);
> pr_info("%s(): recovered after %i trial(s))\n", __func__, trials - 1);

But this is not fully done. Why do we need to keep {}? Just shift left
the code and remove those {} altogether.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko