linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 1/2] drm/i915: remove unnecessary null test

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Date:	Tue, 21 Jul 2015 17:36:45 +0530
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
	Todd Previte <tprevite@...il.com>,
	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/2] drm/i915: remove unnecessary null test

While creating the debugfs file we are setting the inode->i_private to
dev. That same dev is passed to these functions as private of struct
seq_file via single_open(). Moreover single_open is setting
file->private_data->private to dev.
So at this point it can never be NULL.
This check was added by commit eb3394faeb97 ("drm/i915: Add debugfs test
control files for Displayport compliance testing")

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@...torindia.org>
---

v3: removed the check in i915_displayport_test_active_write also
v2: removed null check
v1 was drm/i915: fix possible null pointer dereference

 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c | 21 +--------------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
index bc817da..ffce62e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
@@ -4028,24 +4028,14 @@ static ssize_t i915_displayport_test_active_write(struct file *file,
 {
 	char *input_buffer;
 	int status = 0;
-	struct seq_file *m;
 	struct drm_device *dev;
 	struct drm_connector *connector;
 	struct list_head *connector_list;
 	struct intel_dp *intel_dp;
 	int val = 0;
 
-	m = file->private_data;
-	if (!m) {
-		status = -ENODEV;
-		return status;
-	}
-	dev = m->private;
+	dev = ((struct seq_file *)file->private_data)->private;
 
-	if (!dev) {
-		status = -ENODEV;
-		return status;
-	}
 	connector_list = &dev->mode_config.connector_list;
 
 	if (len == 0)
@@ -4103,9 +4093,6 @@ static int i915_displayport_test_active_show(struct seq_file *m, void *data)
 	struct list_head *connector_list = &dev->mode_config.connector_list;
 	struct intel_dp *intel_dp;
 
-	if (!dev)
-		return -ENODEV;
-
 	list_for_each_entry(connector, connector_list, head) {
 
 		if (connector->connector_type !=
@@ -4150,9 +4137,6 @@ static int i915_displayport_test_data_show(struct seq_file *m, void *data)
 	struct list_head *connector_list = &dev->mode_config.connector_list;
 	struct intel_dp *intel_dp;
 
-	if (!dev)
-		return -ENODEV;
-
 	list_for_each_entry(connector, connector_list, head) {
 
 		if (connector->connector_type !=
@@ -4192,9 +4176,6 @@ static int i915_displayport_test_type_show(struct seq_file *m, void *data)
 	struct list_head *connector_list = &dev->mode_config.connector_list;
 	struct intel_dp *intel_dp;
 
-	if (!dev)
-		return -ENODEV;
-
 	list_for_each_entry(connector, connector_list, head) {
 
 		if (connector->connector_type !=
-- 
1.8.1.2

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