[PATCH 1/2] fs/xfs: Drop unnecessary NULL test

Julia Lawall julia at diku.dk
Mon Jul 13 05:10:05 CDT 2009


From: Julia Lawall <julia at diku.dk>

The result of container_of should not be NULL.  In particular, in this case
the argument to the enclosing function has passed though INIT_DELAYED_WORK,
which dereferences it, implying that its container cannot be NULL.

The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression x,e;
@@
x = container_of(...)
... when != x = e
* x == NULL
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia at diku.dk>

---
 fs/xfs/xfs_mru_cache.c              |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_mru_cache.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_mru_cache.c
index 4b0613d..0651ce7 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_mru_cache.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_mru_cache.c
@@ -280,8 +280,8 @@ _xfs_mru_cache_reap(
 	xfs_mru_cache_t		*mru = container_of(work, xfs_mru_cache_t, work.work);
 	unsigned long		now, next;
 
-	ASSERT(mru && mru->lists);
-	if (!mru || !mru->lists)
+	ASSERT(mru->lists);
+	if (!mru->lists)
 		return;
 
 	spin_lock(&mru->lock);




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