linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] tty: Drop duplicate NULL check in TTY port functions

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Date:   Thu, 3 Feb 2022 09:36:55 +0100
From:   Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] tty: Drop duplicate NULL check in TTY port
 functions

On 02. 02. 22, 17:57, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> The free_page(addr), which becomes free_pages(addr, 0) checks addr against 0.
> No need to repeat this check in the callers, i.e.  tty_port_free_xmit_buf()
> and tty_port_destructor().
> 
> Note, INIT_KFIFO() is safe without that check, because it's aware of kfifo PTR
> versus embedded kfifo.

Not sure what you mean here ^^^? But it might be one of the morning 
brain parser errors.

Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>

> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
>   drivers/tty/tty_port.c | 11 ++++-------
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_port.c b/drivers/tty/tty_port.c
> index 4282895ede9e..880608a65773 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/tty_port.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_port.c
> @@ -240,11 +240,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_port_alloc_xmit_buf);
>   void tty_port_free_xmit_buf(struct tty_port *port)
>   {
>   	mutex_lock(&port->buf_mutex);
> -	if (port->xmit_buf != NULL) {
> -		free_page((unsigned long)port->xmit_buf);
> -		port->xmit_buf = NULL;
> -		INIT_KFIFO(port->xmit_fifo);
> -	}
> +	free_page((unsigned long)port->xmit_buf);
> +	port->xmit_buf = NULL;
> +	INIT_KFIFO(port->xmit_fifo);
>   	mutex_unlock(&port->buf_mutex);
>   }
>   EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_port_free_xmit_buf);
> @@ -271,8 +269,7 @@ static void tty_port_destructor(struct kref *kref)
>   	/* check if last port ref was dropped before tty release */
>   	if (WARN_ON(port->itty))
>   		return;
> -	if (port->xmit_buf)
> -		free_page((unsigned long)port->xmit_buf);
> +	free_page((unsigned long)port->xmit_buf);
>   	tty_port_destroy(port);
>   	if (port->ops && port->ops->destruct)
>   		port->ops->destruct(port);


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