netdev - Re: [PATCH 11/12] net/netlabel: Correct redundant test

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Date:	Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:36:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paul.moore@...com
Cc:	julia@...u.dk, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/12] net/netlabel: Correct redundant test

From: Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:37:29 -0400

> On Monday 27 July 2009 12:15:43 pm Julia Lawall wrote:
>> From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
>>
>> entry was tested for NULL near the beginning of the function, followed by a
>> return, and there is no intervening modification of its value.
>>
>> A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
>> follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
 ...
>> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
> 
> Good catch, thanks.
> 
> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>

Applied to net-next-2.6
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