Apr 29 2008

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

Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

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/)

//
@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
//

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall 
Cc: Thomas Sujith 
Cc: Len Brown 
Cc: Zhang Rui 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 

---
 drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c | 24 +++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c b/drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c
index 0c0bb30..80a1363 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c
@@ -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;
-
-		result = sysfs_create_link(&cdev->device.kobj,
-					&device->dev.kobj, "device");
-		if (result) {
-			sysfs_remove_link(&device->dev.kobj, "thermal_cooling");
-			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;
 	}
 
  end:

qlambert