Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754089AbbGUMG6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jul 2015 08:06:58 -0400 Received: from mail-pd0-f173.google.com ([209.85.192.173]:35393 "EHLO mail-pd0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752230AbbGUMG4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jul 2015 08:06:56 -0400 From: Sudip Mukherjee To: Daniel Vetter , Jani Nikula , David Airlie Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Sudip Mukherjee , Todd Previte , Chris Wilson Subject: [PATCH v3 1/2] drm/i915: remove unnecessary null test Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 17:36:45 +0530 Message-Id: <1437480406-19285-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2750 Lines: 86 While creating the debugfs file we are setting the inode->i_private to dev. That same dev is passed to these functions as private of struct seq_file via single_open(). Moreover single_open is setting file->private_data->private to dev. So at this point it can never be NULL. This check was added by commit eb3394faeb97 ("drm/i915: Add debugfs test control files for Displayport compliance testing") Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee --- v3: removed the check in i915_displayport_test_active_write also v2: removed null check v1 was drm/i915: fix possible null pointer dereference drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c | 21 +-------------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c index bc817da..ffce62e 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c @@ -4028,24 +4028,14 @@ static ssize_t i915_displayport_test_active_write(struct file *file, { char *input_buffer; int status = 0; - struct seq_file *m; struct drm_device *dev; struct drm_connector *connector; struct list_head *connector_list; struct intel_dp *intel_dp; int val = 0; - m = file->private_data; - if (!m) { - status = -ENODEV; - return status; - } - dev = m->private; + dev = ((struct seq_file *)file->private_data)->private; - if (!dev) { - status = -ENODEV; - return status; - } connector_list = &dev->mode_config.connector_list; if (len == 0) @@ -4103,9 +4093,6 @@ static int i915_displayport_test_active_show(struct seq_file *m, void *data) struct list_head *connector_list = &dev->mode_config.connector_list; struct intel_dp *intel_dp; - if (!dev) - return -ENODEV; - list_for_each_entry(connector, connector_list, head) { if (connector->connector_type != @@ -4150,9 +4137,6 @@ static int i915_displayport_test_data_show(struct seq_file *m, void *data) struct list_head *connector_list = &dev->mode_config.connector_list; struct intel_dp *intel_dp; - if (!dev) - return -ENODEV; - list_for_each_entry(connector, connector_list, head) { if (connector->connector_type != @@ -4192,9 +4176,6 @@ static int i915_displayport_test_type_show(struct seq_file *m, void *data) struct list_head *connector_list = &dev->mode_config.connector_list; struct intel_dp *intel_dp; - if (!dev) - return -ENODEV; - list_for_each_entry(connector, connector_list, head) { if (connector->connector_type != -- 1.8.1.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/