linux-kernel - [PATCH 06/14] staging: gasket: remove unnecessary NULL checks on calls from VFS

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Date:   Sat, 21 Jul 2018 05:56:51 -0700
From:   Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@...il.com>
To:     Rob Springer <rspringer@...gle.com>,
        John Joseph <jnjoseph@...gle.com>,
        Ben Chan <benchan@...omium.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Zhongze Hu <frankhu@...omium.org>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...omium.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <groeck@...omium.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 06/14] staging: gasket: remove unnecessary NULL checks on calls from VFS

From: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@...gle.com>

Remove unneeded checks for NULL pointers in struct file pointers passed
from the VFS layer or the private_data that must have been properly set
at file open time.

Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@...omium.org>
Signed-off-by: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@...gle.com>
---
 drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c | 15 ---------------
 1 file changed, 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c b/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c
index 11ab049854493..e82f8ce39c9fd 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c
@@ -1587,11 +1587,6 @@ static int gasket_mmap(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 	int num_map_regions = 0;
 	enum do_map_region_status map_status;
 
-	if (!gasket_dev) {
-		gasket_nodev_error("Unable to retrieve device data");
-		trace_gasket_mmap_exit(-EINVAL);
-		return -EINVAL;
-	}
 	driver_desc = gasket_dev->internal_desc->driver_desc;
 
 	if (vma->vm_start & ~PAGE_MASK) {
@@ -1785,17 +1780,7 @@ static long gasket_ioctl(struct file *filp, uint cmd, ulong arg)
 	void __user *argp = (void __user *)arg;
 	char path[256];
 
-	if (!filp)
-		return -ENODEV;
-
 	gasket_dev = (struct gasket_dev *)filp->private_data;
-	if (!gasket_dev) {
-		gasket_nodev_error(
-			"Unable to find Gasket structure for file %s",
-			d_path(&filp->f_path, path, 256));
-		return -ENODEV;
-	}
-
 	driver_desc = gasket_dev->internal_desc->driver_desc;
 	if (!driver_desc) {
 		gasket_log_error(
-- 
2.18.0.233.g985f88cf7e-goog