linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] net: hns3: remove redundant null check of an array

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Message-ID: <20210203152425.00007a51@intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 3 Feb 2021 15:24:25 -0800
From:   Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Yisen Zhuang <yisen.zhuang@...wei.com>,
        Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@...wei.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Huazhong Tan <tanhuazhong@...wei.com>,
        "Guangbin Huang" <huangguangbin2@...wei.com>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] net: hns3: remove redundant null check of an
 array

Colin King wrote:

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The null check of filp->f_path.dentry->d_iname is redundant because
> it is an array of DNAME_INLINE_LEN chars and cannot be a null. Fix
> this by removing the null check.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Array compared against 0")
> Fixes: 04987ca1b9b6 ("net: hns3: add debugfs support for tm nodes, priority and qset info")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Reviewed-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>