linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] caif: delete unnecessary field initialization

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Message-Id: <20140217.002937.68814317178840128.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:29:37 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Julia.Lawall@...6.fr
Cc:	dmitry.tarnyagin@...kless.no, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] caif: delete unnecessary field initialization

From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 08:36:13 +0100

> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
> 
> On success, the function netdev_alloc_skb initializes the dev field of its
> result to its first argument, so this doesn't have to be done in the
> calling context.
> 
> The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression skb,privn,e;
> @@
> 
> skb = netdev_alloc_skb(privn,...);
> ... when strict
> (
> -skb->dev = privn;
> |
> ?skb = e
> )
> // </smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>

Applied to net-next, thanks.
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