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Message-ID: <CAPoiz9znciQsg5ZXZf7xsM-8dt5umRnTX7RkEEADANQ6jqGEYQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:48:59 -0500
From:	Jon Mason <jdmason@...zu.us>
To:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@...ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86@...nel.org,
	discuss@...-64.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: PCI-Calgary: Deletion of an unnecessary check
 before the function call "free_tce_table"

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 7:00 AM, SF Markus Elfring
<elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 12:55:28 +0100
>
> The free_tce_table() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then
> returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed.
>
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>

Looks good to me

Acked-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@...zu.us>


> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/pci-calgary_64.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-calgary_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-calgary_64.c
> index 0497f71..d22a386 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-calgary_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-calgary_64.c
> @@ -1476,8 +1476,7 @@ cleanup:
>         for (--bus; bus >= 0; --bus) {
>                 struct calgary_bus_info *info = &bus_info[bus];
>
> -               if (info->tce_space)
> -                       free_tce_table(info->tce_space);
> +               free_tce_table(info->tce_space);
>         }
>         return -ENOMEM;
>  }
> --
> 2.1.3
>
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