linux-kernel - [PATCH] gpio: Remove impossible checks on container

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Date:   Mon,  9 Jan 2017 11:47:44 -0800
From:   Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] gpio: Remove impossible checks on container_of() result

container_of() does pointer math on the pointer that's passed in.
If it were to return a NULL pointer the value passed in would
need to be perfectly offset from 0 to make that so. Remove these
checks because they don't make sense.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
---
 drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
index 86bf3b84ada5..4864408364ef 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ static int gpio_chrdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 					      struct gpio_device, chrdev);
 
 	/* Fail on open if the backing gpiochip is gone */
-	if (!gdev || !gdev->chip)
+	if (!gdev->chip)
 		return -ENODEV;
 	get_device(&gdev->dev);
 	filp->private_data = gdev;
@@ -1001,8 +1001,6 @@ static int gpio_chrdev_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 	struct gpio_device *gdev = container_of(inode->i_cdev,
 					      struct gpio_device, chrdev);
 
-	if (!gdev)
-		return -ENODEV;
 	put_device(&gdev->dev);
 	return 0;
 }
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