linux-kernel - [PATCH] decnet: Remove unnecessary check for dev->name

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Message-Id: <20180921193034.808-1-natechancellor@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:30:34 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
To:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     linux-decnet-user@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] decnet: Remove unnecessary check for dev->name

Clang warns that the address of a pointer will always evaluated as true
in a boolean context.

net/decnet/dn_dev.c:1366:10: warning: address of array 'dev->name' will
always evaluate to 'true' [-Wpointer-bool-conversion]
                                dev->name ? dev->name : "???",
                                ~~~~~^~~~ ~
1 warning generated.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/116
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
---
 net/decnet/dn_dev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/decnet/dn_dev.c b/net/decnet/dn_dev.c
index bfd43e8f2c06..d0b3e69c6b39 100644
--- a/net/decnet/dn_dev.c
+++ b/net/decnet/dn_dev.c
@@ -1363,7 +1363,7 @@ static int dn_dev_seq_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
 
 		seq_printf(seq, "%-8s %1s     %04u %04u   %04lu %04lu"
 				"   %04hu    %03d %02x    %-10s %-7s %-7s\n",
-				dev->name ? dev->name : "???",
+				dev->name,
 				dn_type2asc(dn_db->parms.mode),
 				0, 0,
 				dn_db->t3, dn_db->parms.t3,
-- 
2.19.0