On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 08:37:04AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > The driver core only calls a bus' remove function when there is actually > a driver and a device. So drop the needless check and assign cldrv earlier. > > (Side note: The check for cldev being non-NULL is broken anyhow, because > to_mei_cl_device() is a wrapper around container_of() for a member that is > not the first one. So cldev only can become NULL if dev is (void *)0xc > (for archs with 32 bit pointers) or (void *)0x18 (for archs with 64 bit > pointers).) > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u...@kleine-koenig.org> > --- > drivers/misc/mei/bus.c | 6 +----- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/bus.c b/drivers/misc/mei/bus.c > index 2907db260fba..50d617e7467e 100644 > --- a/drivers/misc/mei/bus.c > +++ b/drivers/misc/mei/bus.c > @@ -878,13 +878,9 @@ static int mei_cl_device_probe(struct device *dev) > static int mei_cl_device_remove(struct device *dev) > { > struct mei_cl_device *cldev = to_mei_cl_device(dev); > - struct mei_cl_driver *cldrv; > + struct mei_cl_driver *cldrv = to_mei_cl_driver(dev->driver); > int ret = 0; > > - if (!cldev || !dev->driver)
Yes, anyone checking that the results of a container_of() wrapper can be NULL is not checking anything at all :) thanks for the cleanups, I'll go queue them up. greg k-h