linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] kobject: Drop unneeded conditional in __kobject

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Date:   Mon, 3 Aug 2020 13:26:11 +0200
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] kobject: Drop unneeded conditional in __kobject_del()

On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 10:35 AM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> __kobject_del() is called from two places, in one where kobj is dereferenced
> before and thus can't be NULL, and in the other the NULL check is done before
> call. Drop unneeded conditional in __kobject_del().
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>

> ---
>
> It is possible after refactoring kobject_del(). Though I decided to do it in
> a separate change (no need to backport) for better test coverage.
>
>  lib/kobject.c | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
> index 9dce68c378e6..ea53b30cf483 100644
> --- a/lib/kobject.c
> +++ b/lib/kobject.c
> @@ -604,9 +604,6 @@ static void __kobject_del(struct kobject *kobj)
>         struct kernfs_node *sd;
>         const struct kobj_type *ktype;
>
> -       if (!kobj)
> -               return;
> -
>         sd = kobj->sd;
>         ktype = get_ktype(kobj);
>
> --
> 2.27.0
>