| Message ID | 20171231184448.233694839@cogentembedded.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | Accepted |
| Delegated to: | Geert Uytterhoeven |
| Headers | show |
H Sergei, On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 7:41 PM, Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> wrote: > Browsing thru the driver diassembly, I noticed that gcc was able to > figure out that the 'ndev' pointer is always non-NULL when calling > free_netdev() on the probe() method's error path and thus skip that > redundant NULL check... gcc is smart, be like gcc! :-) Thanks for your patch! > Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> > --- net-next.orig/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c > +++ net-next/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c > @@ -3282,8 +3282,7 @@ out_napi_del: > > out_release: > /* net_dev free */ > - if (ndev) > - free_netdev(ndev); > + free_netdev(ndev); > > pm_runtime_put(&pdev->dev); > pm_runtime_disable(&pdev->dev); BTW, there isn't a functional dependency, but you may want to move the freeing of the netdev below disabling of Runtime PM for symmetry (use reverse order in cleanup). Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
Index: net-next/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c =================================================================== --- net-next.orig/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c +++ net-next/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c @@ -3282,8 +3282,7 @@ out_napi_del: out_release: /* net_dev free */ - if (ndev) - free_netdev(ndev); + free_netdev(ndev); pm_runtime_put(&pdev->dev); pm_runtime_disable(&pdev->dev);
Browsing thru the driver diassembly, I noticed that gcc was able to figure out that the 'ndev' pointer is always non-NULL when calling free_netdev() on the probe() method's error path and thus skip that redundant NULL check... gcc is smart, be like gcc! :-) Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)