netdev - [PATCH] net/sched: taprio: Drop unnecessary NULL check after container

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Date:   Tue, 11 May 2021 13:54:49 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Cc:     Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Subject: [PATCH] net/sched: taprio: Drop unnecessary NULL check after container_of

The rcu_head pointer passed to taprio_free_sched_cb is never NULL.
That means that the result of container_of() operations on it is also
never NULL, even though rcu_head is the first element of the structure
embedding it. On top of that, it is misleading to perform a NULL check
on the result of container_of() because the position of the contained
element could change, which would make the check invalid. Remove the
unnecessary NULL check.

This change was made automatically with the following Coccinelle script.

@@
type t;
identifier v;
statement s;
@@

<+...
(
  t v = container_of(...);
|
  v = container_of(...);
)
  ...
  when != v
- if (\( !v \| v == NULL \) ) s
...+>

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
---
 net/sched/sch_taprio.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/sch_taprio.c b/net/sched/sch_taprio.c
index 5c91df52b8c2..71e8a7a84841 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_taprio.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_taprio.c
@@ -114,9 +114,6 @@ static void taprio_free_sched_cb(struct rcu_head *head)
 	struct sched_gate_list *sched = container_of(head, struct sched_gate_list, rcu);
 	struct sched_entry *entry, *n;
 
-	if (!sched)
-		return;
-
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(entry, n, &sched->entries, list) {
 		list_del(&entry->list);
 		kfree(entry);
-- 
2.25.1