Re: [PATCH] ide: fix warning comparing pointer to 0

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Thu Mar 11 2021 - 10:13:05 EST


On 3/11/21 2:48 AM, Jiapeng Chong wrote:
> Fix the following coccicheck warning:
>
> ./drivers/ide/pmac.c:1680:38-39: WARNING comparing pointer to 0.
>
> Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/ide/pmac.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/ide/pmac.c b/drivers/ide/pmac.c
> index ea0b064..d5171e0 100644
> --- a/drivers/ide/pmac.c
> +++ b/drivers/ide/pmac.c
> @@ -1677,7 +1677,7 @@ static int pmac_ide_init_dma(ide_hwif_t *hwif, const struct ide_port_info *d)
> /* We won't need pci_dev if we switch to generic consistent
> * DMA routines ...
> */
> - if (dev == NULL || pmif->dma_regs == 0)
> + if (!dev || pmif->dma_regs)
> return -ENODEV;

This looks utterly broken - the warning is most definitely about
dma_regs, not dev, and you swapped the condition (failing on dma_regs
being set, not NULL).

I'd just leave this one alone, drivers/ide/ should be going away soon.

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Jens Axboe