linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] GPU-DRM-MSM-Adreno: Deletion of unnecessary checks before the function call "release

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Date:	Mon, 1 Dec 2014 17:01:26 +0100
From:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
To:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] GPU-DRM-MSM-Adreno: Deletion of unnecessary checks
 before the function call "release_firmware"

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 01:50:25PM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>

You can probably get rid of this if you configure your emailer properly.

> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 13:44:20 +0100

This is odd. I've never seen git send-email generate these.

I didn't notice with your earlier patches, but the subject prefix is
wrong. Please use something more consistent with existing patches, in
this case: "drm/msm: ..." or "drm/msm/adreno: ..."

> The release_firmware() 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>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/adreno_gpu.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/adreno_gpu.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/adreno_gpu.c
> index 655ce5b..757052c 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/adreno_gpu.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/adreno_gpu.c
> @@ -404,9 +404,7 @@ void adreno_gpu_cleanup(struct adreno_gpu *gpu)
>  			msm_gem_put_iova(gpu->memptrs_bo, gpu->base.id);
>  		drm_gem_object_unreference(gpu->memptrs_bo);
>  	}
> -	if (gpu->pm4)
> -		release_firmware(gpu->pm4);
> -	if (gpu->pfp)
> -		release_firmware(gpu->pfp);
> +	release_firmware(gpu->pm4);
> +	release_firmware(gpu->pfp);
>  	msm_gpu_cleanup(&gpu->base);
>  }

Besides the subject prefix,

Reviewed-by: Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>

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