linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -2nd repost 2/4] SCSI: remove unnecessary NULL test

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Date:	Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:22:15 -0600
From:	Mike Christie <michaelc@...wisc.edu>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
CC:	James.Bottomley@...e.de, Karen Xie <kxie@...lsio.com>,
	james.smart@...lex.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -2nd repost 2/4] SCSI: remove unnecessary NULL test

Adding Karen and removing adaptec since this is chelsio's driver.

Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Stanse found that c3cn is poked many times around in
> cxgb3i_conn_pdu_ready, there is no need to check if it is NULL.
> 
> Remove the test.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/cxgb3i/cxgb3i_pdu.c |    6 ++----
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/cxgb3i/cxgb3i_pdu.c b/drivers/scsi/cxgb3i/cxgb3i_pdu.c
> index 7091050..64bbc28 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/cxgb3i/cxgb3i_pdu.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/cxgb3i/cxgb3i_pdu.c
> @@ -461,10 +461,8 @@ void cxgb3i_conn_pdu_ready(struct s3_conn *c3cn)
>  		skb = skb_peek(&c3cn->receive_queue);
>  	}
>  	read_unlock(&c3cn->callback_lock);
> -	if (c3cn) {
> -		c3cn->copied_seq += read;
> -		cxgb3i_c3cn_rx_credits(c3cn, read);
> -	}
> +	c3cn->copied_seq += read;
> +	cxgb3i_c3cn_rx_credits(c3cn, read);
>  	conn->rxdata_octets += read;
>  
>  	if (err) {

Looks ok to me. The null check was useless since we access c3cn all over 
the function and would have oopsed before we got there.

Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@...wisc.edu>
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