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Message-ID: <871rpb4nd1.fsf@kernel.org>
Date:   Sun, 29 Mar 2020 10:43:54 +0300
From:   Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>
To:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
Cc:     Ashwini Pahuja <ashwini.linux@...il.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] usb: gadget: udc: bdc: Remove unnecessary NULL checks in bdc_req_complete


Hi Nathan,

Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com> writes:

> When building with Clang + -Wtautological-pointer-compare:
>
> drivers/usb/gadget/udc/bdc/bdc_ep.c:543:28: warning: comparison of
> address of 'req->queue' equal to a null pointer is always false
> [-Wtautological-pointer-compare]
>         if (req == NULL  || &req->queue == NULL || &req->usb_req == NULL)
>                              ~~~~~^~~~~    ~~~~
> drivers/usb/gadget/udc/bdc/bdc_ep.c:543:51: warning: comparison of
> address of 'req->usb_req' equal to a null pointer is always false
> [-Wtautological-pointer-compare]
>         if (req == NULL  || &req->queue == NULL || &req->usb_req == NULL)
>                                                     ~~~~~^~~~~~~    ~~~~
> 2 warnings generated.
>
> As it notes, these statements will always evaluate to false so remove
> them.
>
> Fixes: efed421a94e6 ("usb: gadget: Add UDC driver for Broadcom USB3.0 device controller IP BDC")
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/749
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>

It's now in my queue for v5.8. It doesn't really look like a bug fix, so
it's not going in during v5.7-rc

-- 
balbi

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