2016-05-26 6:48 GMT+09:00 Luis de Bethencourt <lui...@osg.samsung.com>: > On 20/05/16 10:51, Daeseok Youn wrote: >> the "brd" value cannot be NULL in dgnc_finalize_board_init(). >> Because "brd" as a parameter of this function was already >> checked for NULL. >> >> Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.y...@gmail.com> >> --- >> drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c | 3 --- >> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c >> b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c >> index af2e835..22257d2 100644 >> --- a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c >> +++ b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c >> @@ -579,9 +579,6 @@ static int dgnc_finalize_board_init(struct dgnc_board >> *brd) >> { >> int rc = 0; >> >> - if (!brd || brd->magic != DGNC_BOARD_MAGIC) >> - return -ENODEV; >> - >> if (brd->irq) { >> rc = request_irq(brd->irq, brd->bd_ops->intr, >> IRQF_SHARED, "DGNC", brd); >> > > This is partially correct, the check for brd being NULL is in line 371. Hi Luis,
Yes, right. but also brd was assigned the value DGNC_BOARD_MAGIC in line 384. brd->magic = DGNC_BOARD_MAGIC; and also dgnc_finalize_board_init() as a static function is only called in dgnc_found_board(), right? > > But there is a second check for brd->magic != DGNC_BOARD_MAGIC. Do you want > to keep that one? So.. I think it doesn't need to check about DGNC_BOARD_MAGIC. > > Also, how did you find this patch. It is useful to mention this in the commit > message if it was through some static analysis tool. For people using these > tools > in the future. There are some static analysis tool for checking linux kernel code. But I didn't use those tools for this patch. sometimes, I usually run "smatch" tool for checking linux kernel code. thanks. regards, Daeseok. > > Thanks for the patch :) > Luis