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Message-Id: <1206433881.3047.51.camel@acpi-hp-zz.sh.intel.com>
Date:	Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:31:21 +0800
From:	"Zhang, Rui" <rui.zhang@...el.com>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Cc:	"Brown, Len" <len.brown@...el.com>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] drivers/acpi: elide a non-zero test on a result
	that is never 0


On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 02:10 +0800, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
> 
> The function thermal_cooling_device_register always returns either a
> valid
> pointer or a value made with ERR_PTR, so a test for non-zero on the
> result
> will always succeed.
> 
> 
> The problem was found using the following semantic match.
> (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
> 
> //<smpl>
> @a@
> expression E, E1;
> statement S,S1;
> position p;
> @@
> 
> E = thermal_cooling_device_register(...)
> ... when != E = E1
> if@p (E) S else S1
> 
> @n@
> position a.p;
> expression E,E1;
> statement S,S1;
> @@
> 
> E = NULL
> ... when != E = E1
> if@p (E) S else S1
> 
> @depends on !n@
> expression E;
> statement S,S1;
> position a.p;
> @@
> 
> * if@p (E)
>   S else S1
> //</smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/fan.c            |   34
> ++++++++++++++++------------------
>  drivers/acpi/processor_core.c |   30 ++++++++++++++----------------
>  drivers/acpi/video.c          |   28 +++++++++++++---------------
>  3 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
> 
> diff -u -p a/drivers/acpi/fan.c b/drivers/acpi/fan.c
> --- a/drivers/acpi/fan.c        2008-03-12 14:13:13.000000000 +0100
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/fan.c        2008-03-24 16:14:50.000000000 +0100
> @@ -260,24 +260,22 @@ static int acpi_fan_add(struct acpi_devi
>                 result = PTR_ERR(cdev);
>                 goto end;
>         }
> -       if (cdev) {
> -               printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX
> -                       "%s is registered as cooling_device%d\n",
> -                       device->dev.bus_id, cdev->id);
> -
> -               acpi_driver_data(device) = cdev;
> -               result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj,
> -                                          &cdev->device.kobj,
> -                                          "thermal_cooling");
> -               if (result)
> -                       return result;
> -
> -               result = sysfs_create_link(&cdev->device.kobj,
> -                                          &device->dev.kobj,
> -                                          "device");
> -               if (result)
> -                       return result;
> -       }
> +       printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX
> +               "%s is registered as cooling_device%d\n",
> +               device->dev.bus_id, cdev->id);
> +
> +       acpi_driver_data(device) = cdev;
> +       result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj,
> +                                  &cdev->device.kobj,
> +                                  "thermal_cooling");
> +       if (result)
> +               return result;
> +
> +       result = sysfs_create_link(&cdev->device.kobj,
> +                                  &device->dev.kobj,
> +                                  "device");
> +       if (result)
> +               return result;
> 
>         result = acpi_fan_add_fs(device);
>         if (result)
> diff -u -p a/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c
> b/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c
> --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c     2008-03-12 14:13:13.000000000
> +0100
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c     2008-03-24 16:15:53.000000000
> +0100
> @@ -674,22 +674,20 @@ static int __cpuinit acpi_processor_star
>                 result = PTR_ERR(pr->cdev);
>                 goto end;
>         }
> -       if (pr->cdev) {
> -               printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX
> -                       "%s is registered as cooling_device%d\n",
> -                       device->dev.bus_id, pr->cdev->id);
> -
> -               result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj,
> -                                          &pr->cdev->device.kobj,
> -                                          "thermal_cooling");
> -               if (result)
> -                       return result;
> -               result = sysfs_create_link(&pr->cdev->device.kobj,
> -                                          &device->dev.kobj,
> -                                          "device");
> -               if (result)
> -                       return result;
> -       }
> +       printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX
> +               "%s is registered as cooling_device%d\n",
> +               device->dev.bus_id, pr->cdev->id);
> +
> +       result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj,
> +                                  &pr->cdev->device.kobj,
> +                                  "thermal_cooling");
> +       if (result)
> +               return result;
> +       result = sysfs_create_link(&pr->cdev->device.kobj,
> +                                  &device->dev.kobj,
> +                                  "device");
> +       if (result)
> +               return result;
> 
>         if (pr->flags.throttling) {
>                 printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX "%s [%s] (supports",
> diff -u -p a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c
> --- a/drivers/acpi/video.c      2008-03-12 14:13:13.000000000 +0100
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c      2008-03-24 16:17:17.000000000 +0100
> @@ -734,21 +734,19 @@ static void acpi_video_device_find_cap(s
>                 if (IS_ERR(device->cdev))
>                         return;
> 
> -               if (device->cdev) {
> -                       printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX
> -                               "%s is registered as cooling_device%d
> \n",
> -                               device->dev->dev.bus_id,
> device->cdev->id);
> -                       result =
> sysfs_create_link(&device->dev->dev.kobj,
> -                                         &device->cdev->device.kobj,
> -                                         "thermal_cooling");
> -                       if (result)
> -                               printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "Create sysfs
> link\n");
> -                       result =
> sysfs_create_link(&device->cdev->device.kobj,
> -                                         &device->dev->dev.kobj,
> -                                         "device");
> -                        if (result)
> -                               printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "Create sysfs
> link\n");
> -               }
> +               printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX
> +                       "%s is registered as cooling_device%d\n",
> +                       device->dev->dev.bus_id, device->cdev->id);
> +               result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev->dev.kobj,
> +                                 &device->cdev->device.kobj,
> +                                 "thermal_cooling");
> +               if (result)
> +                       printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "Create sysfs link\n");
> +               result = sysfs_create_link(&device->cdev->device.kobj,
> +                                 &device->dev->dev.kobj,
> +                                 "device");
> +               if (result)
> +                       printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "Create sysfs link\n");
>         }
>         if (device->cap._DCS && device->cap._DSS){
>                 static int count = 0;
> --
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