Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:04:10 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Don't test for NULL firmware before releasing | From | Mikko Perttunen <> |
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On 2/16/23 15:19, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: > Hi > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 02:37:15AM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: >> From 4fe34831e2e7677b1c9616356f0a2e0a36ec092f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Jesper Juhl <jesperjuhl76@gmail.com> >> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 02:33:05 +0100 >> Subject: [PATCH] Don't test for NULL firmware before releasing >> >> release_firmware() tests for a NULL pointer itself, no need to do it up-front. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesperjuhl76@gmail.com> >> >> --- >> drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/falcon.c | 3 +-- >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/falcon.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/falcon.c >> index c0d85463eb1a..ae599441f031 100644 >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/falcon.c >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/falcon.c >> @@ -153,8 +153,7 @@ int falcon_init(struct falcon *falcon) >> >> void falcon_exit(struct falcon *falcon) >> { >> - if (falcon->firmware.firmware) >> - release_firmware(falcon->firmware.firmware); >> + release_firmware(falcon->firmware.firmware); > > Please check patches with checkpatch.pl before posting. > > Regards > Stanislaw >
Aside the formatting deficiencies, I'm also not in favor of relying on NULL checks inside callees since doing so removes contextual information from the programmer; just looking at the code, it is easy to assume the pointer cannot be NULL if there is no NULL check. Recently had a longer thread about this in the context of kfree in TegraDRM.
Thanks Mikko
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