Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2020-03-31

Re: [PATCH] vhost: vdpa: remove unnecessary null check

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: 2020-03-31 14:03:34
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On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 06:50:40PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
container_of is never null, so this null check is
unnecessary.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1492006 ("Logically dead code")
Fixes: 20453a45fb06 ("vhost: introduce vDPA-based backend")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <redacted>
Yes weird. Was the point to test i_cdev? Tiwei?
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 drivers/vhost/vdpa.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c b/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c
index 421f02a8530a..3d2cb811757a 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c
@@ -678,8 +678,6 @@ static int vhost_vdpa_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filep)
 	int nvqs, i, r, opened;
 
 	v = container_of(inode->i_cdev, struct vhost_vdpa, cdev);
-	if (!v)
-		return -ENODEV;
 
 	opened = atomic_cmpxchg(&v->opened, 0, 1);
 	if (opened)
-- 
2.26.0
  
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