Re: [PATCH] usb: uvc_debugfs: remove unnecessary NULL check before debugfs_remove_recursive

From: Laurent Pinchart
Date: Mon Aug 06 2018 - 18:47:36 EST


Hi Gustavo,

Thank you for the patch.

On Sunday, 12 November 2017 10:18:59 EEST Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> NULL check before freeing functions like debugfs_remove_recursive
> is not needed.

"functions like debugfs_remove_recursive" seems a bit vague to me. I'd prefer
being more precise here, and say that "debugfs_remove_recursive() accepts a
NULL parameter and returns immediately, there's no need for a NULL check in
the caller.".

>
> This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_debugfs.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_debugfs.c
> b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_debugfs.c index 368f8f8..6995aeb 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_debugfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_debugfs.c
> @@ -128,6 +128,5 @@ void uvc_debugfs_init(void)
>
> void uvc_debugfs_cleanup(void)
> {
> - if (uvc_debugfs_root_dir != NULL)
> - debugfs_remove_recursive(uvc_debugfs_root_dir);
> + debugfs_remove_recursive(uvc_debugfs_root_dir);
> }

There's another occurrence in uvc_debugfs_cleanup_stream(). I'll address it as
well in this patch. With that change and the commit message update,

Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

and applied to my tree.

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart