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drivers/misc: elide a non-zero test on a result that is never 0 

The function thermal_cooling_device_register always returns either a valid
pointer or a value made with ERR_PTR, so a test for non-zero on the result
will always succeed.

The problem was found using the following semantic match.
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

//<smpl>
@a@
expression E, E1;
statement S,S1;
position p;
@@

E = thermal_cooling_device_register(...)
... when != E = E1
if@p (E) S else S1

@n@
position a.p;
expression E,E1;
statement S,S1;
@@

E = NULL
... when != E = E1
if@p (E) S else S1

@depends on !n@
expression E;
statement S,S1;
position a.p;
@@

* if@p (E)
  S else S1
//</smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Thomas Sujith <sujith.thomas@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Julia Lawall 2008-04-29 00:59:30 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 95d8c365b2
commit 3a8ca95e9d
1 changed files with 10 additions and 12 deletions
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drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c
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@ -175,19 +175,17 @@ static int intel_menlow_memory_add(struct acpi_device *device)
goto end;
}
if (cdev) {
acpi_driver_data(device) = cdev;
result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj,
&cdev->device.kobj, "thermal_cooling");
if (result)
goto unregister;
acpi_driver_data(device) = cdev;
result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj,
&cdev->device.kobj, "thermal_cooling");
if (result)
goto unregister;
result = sysfs_create_link(&cdev->device.kobj,
&device->dev.kobj, "device");
if (result) {
sysfs_remove_link(&device->dev.kobj, "thermal_cooling");
goto unregister;
}
result = sysfs_create_link(&cdev->device.kobj,
&device->dev.kobj, "device");
if (result) {
sysfs_remove_link(&device->dev.kobj, "thermal_cooling");
goto unregister;
}
end: