Re: [PATCH] coresight: cti: Remove unnecessary NULL check in cti_sig_type_name

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Mon Mar 02 2020 - 16:51:24 EST


On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 1:34 PM Nathan Chancellor
<natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Clang warns:
>
> drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-sysfs.c:948:11: warning:
> address of array 'grp->sig_types' will always evaluate to 'true'
> [-Wpointer-bool-conversion]
> if (grp->sig_types) {
> ~~ ~~~~~^~~~~~~~~
> 1 warning generated.
>
> sig_types is at the end of a struct so it cannot be NULL.
>
> Fixes: 85b6684eab65 ("coresight: cti: Add connection information to sysfs")
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/914
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>

Yep, GCC and Clang both eliminate the false case as impossible:
https://godbolt.org/z/tjbDqR
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-sysfs.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-sysfs.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-sysfs.c
> index abb7f492c2cb..214d6552b494 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-sysfs.c
> @@ -945,10 +945,8 @@ cti_sig_type_name(struct cti_trig_con *con, int used_count, bool in)
> int idx = 0;
> struct cti_trig_grp *grp = in ? con->con_in : con->con_out;
>
> - if (grp->sig_types) {
> - if (used_count < grp->nr_sigs)
> - idx = grp->sig_types[used_count];
> - }
> + if (used_count < grp->nr_sigs)
> + idx = grp->sig_types[used_count];
> return sig_type_names[idx];
> }
>
> --


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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers