On 20.08.19 13:17, Pali Rohár wrote:

On Tuesday 20 August 2019 12:56:12 Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:

quoted

From: Enrico Weigelt <info@metux.net>

IS_ERR() already calls unlikely(), so this extra unlikely() call
around IS_ERR() is not needed.

Signed-off-by: Enrico Weigelt <info@metux.net>
---
  drivers/input/mouse/alps.c | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/input/mouse/alps.c b/drivers/input/mouse/alps.c
index 34700ed..ed16614 100644
--- a/drivers/input/mouse/alps.c
+++ b/drivers/input/mouse/alps.c

@@ -1476,7 +1476,7 @@ static void alps_report_bare_ps2_packet(struct psmouse *psmouse,
  		/* On V2 devices the DualPoint Stick reports bare packets */
  		dev = priv->dev2;
  		dev2 = psmouse->dev;
-	} else if (unlikely(IS_ERR_OR_NULL(priv->dev3))) {
+	} else if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(priv->dev3)) {
  		/* Register dev3 mouse if we received PS/2 packet first time */
  		if (!IS_ERR(priv->dev3))
  			psmouse_queue_work(psmouse, &priv->dev3_register_work,

Hello! Two months ago I already saw this patch. See discussion:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10977099/

phuh, that's long chain of links to folow ;-)

So, your primary argument is just *documenting* that this supposed to
be a rare condition ?

In that case, wouldn't a comment be more suitable for that ?

It seems that this issue is coming up again and again ... when people
run cocci scans (like I didn't), I'd suspect this to happen even more
in the future.


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Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
Free software and Linux embedded engineering
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