linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] SCSI-lpfc: Delete unnecessary checks before the function call "mempool

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Date:	Wed, 16 Dec 2015 15:17:23 -0800
From:	James Smart <james.smart@...gotech.com>
To:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@...gotech.com>,
	"James E. J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@...n.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI-lpfc: Delete unnecessary checks before the function
 call "mempool_destroy"

fyi - this patch was just pushed in our 11.0.0.10 patch set - patch 15/17

-- james s


On 11/17/2015 12:44 AM, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 09:34:27 +0100
>
> The mempool_destroy() function tests whether its argument is NULL
> and then returns immediately. Thus the test around the calls is not needed.
>
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> ---
>   drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c | 6 ++----
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c
> index 3fa6533..4fb3581 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c
> @@ -231,15 +231,13 @@ lpfc_mem_free(struct lpfc_hba *phba)
>   	if (phba->lpfc_hbq_pool)
>   		pci_pool_destroy(phba->lpfc_hbq_pool);
>   	phba->lpfc_hbq_pool = NULL;
> -
> -	if (phba->rrq_pool)
> -		mempool_destroy(phba->rrq_pool);
> +	mempool_destroy(phba->rrq_pool);
>   	phba->rrq_pool = NULL;
>   
>   	/* Free NLP memory pool */
>   	mempool_destroy(phba->nlp_mem_pool);
>   	phba->nlp_mem_pool = NULL;
> -	if (phba->sli_rev == LPFC_SLI_REV4 && phba->active_rrq_pool) {
> +	if (phba->sli_rev == LPFC_SLI_REV4) {
>   		mempool_destroy(phba->active_rrq_pool);
>   		phba->active_rrq_pool = NULL;
>   	}

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