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Message-ID: <32ae2f4c-de7c-050b-85a2-489b6813fd5f@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 31 Mar 2020 10:35:56 +0800
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@...el.com>,
        Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@...hat.com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vhost: vdpa: remove unnecessary null check


On 2020/3/31 上午7:50, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> container_of is never null, so this null check is
> unnecessary.
>
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1492006 ("Logically dead code")
> Fixes: 20453a45fb06 ("vhost: introduce vDPA-based backend")
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
> ---
>   drivers/vhost/vdpa.c | 2 --
>   1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c b/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c
> index 421f02a8530a..3d2cb811757a 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c
> @@ -678,8 +678,6 @@ static int vhost_vdpa_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filep)
>   	int nvqs, i, r, opened;
>   
>   	v = container_of(inode->i_cdev, struct vhost_vdpa, cdev);
> -	if (!v)
> -		return -ENODEV;
>   
>   	opened = atomic_cmpxchg(&v->opened, 0, 1);
>   	if (opened)


Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>

Thanks

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