linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/5] driver core: dev_get_drvdata: Don't check for NULL dev

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Date:	Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:57:43 +0200
From:	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] driver core: dev_get_drvdata: Don't check for NULL dev

There is no point in calling dev_get_drvdata without a valid device.
So checking for dev == NULL is pointless. If such a check is ever
needed - which I doubt - the driver should do it before calling
dev_get_drvdata.

We were returning NULL if dev was NULL, which the caller certainly did
not expect anyway, so that was only delaying the crash if the caller
is not paying attention.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/base/dd.c |    4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- linux-3.15-rc0.orig/drivers/base/dd.c	2014-04-09 16:16:01.631698736 +0200
+++ linux-3.15-rc0/drivers/base/dd.c	2014-04-09 16:55:09.293001255 +0200
@@ -577,9 +577,7 @@ void driver_detach(struct device_driver
  */
 void *dev_get_drvdata(const struct device *dev)
 {
-	if (dev)
-		return dev->driver_data;
-	return NULL;
+	return dev->driver_data;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_get_drvdata);
 

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support
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