linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] media: NULL check is meaningless before debugfs_remove

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Date:   Fri, 17 Aug 2018 12:18:30 +0300
From:   Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
To:     zhong jiang <zhongjiang@...wei.com>
Cc:     mchehab@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: NULL check is meaningless before debugfs_remove_recursive

Hi Zhong,

Thank you for the patch.

On Friday, 17 August 2018 06:37:26 EEST zhong jiang wrote:
> debugfs_remove_recursive has taken null pointer into account. so
> remove the unneeded check.
> 
> Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@...wei.com>

I already have a similar patch in my tree (git://linuxtv.org/pinchartl/
media.git uvc/next) and will include it in my pull request for v4.20.

> ---
>  drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_debugfs.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_debugfs.c
> b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_debugfs.c index 368f8f8..6995aeb 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_debugfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_debugfs.c
> @@ -128,6 +128,5 @@ void uvc_debugfs_init(void)
> 
>  void uvc_debugfs_cleanup(void)
>  {
> -	if (uvc_debugfs_root_dir != NULL)
> -		debugfs_remove_recursive(uvc_debugfs_root_dir);
> +	debugfs_remove_recursive(uvc_debugfs_root_dir);
>  }

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart