linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] coresight: Avoid casting void pointers

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Date:   Sun, 26 Apr 2020 13:37:25 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>,
        Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Mike Leach <mike.leach@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] coresight: Avoid casting void pointers

On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 11:58 -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> We don't need to cast void pointers, such as the amba_id data. Assign to
> a local variable to make the code prettier and also return NULL instead
> of 0 to make sparse happy.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-priv.h b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-priv.h
[]
> @@ -206,9 +206,12 @@ cti_remove_assoc_from_csdev(struct coresight_device *csdev) {}
>  /* extract the data value from a UCI structure given amba_id pointer. */
>  static inline void *coresight_get_uci_data(const struct amba_id *id)
>  {
> -	if (id->data)
> -		return ((struct amba_cs_uci_id *)(id->data))->data;
> -	return 0;
> +	struct amba_cs_uci_id *uci_id = id->data;
> +
> +	if (uci_id)
> +		return id->data;

Missing one more level of indirection here yes?

		return uci_id->data;

> +
> +	return NULL;
>  }

And this code would generally be written to return the expected
value at the bottom of the function and any unusual return
early like:

static inline void *coresight_get_uci_data(const struct amba_id *id)
{
	struct amba_cs_uci_id *uci_id = id->data;

	if (!uci_id)
		return NULL;

	return uci_id->data;
}