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SubjectRe: [PATCH][mtd-next] mtd: nand: remove redundant check of len
On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:38:44 +0100
Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:30:04 +0000
> Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> wrote:
>
> > On 13/12/17 20:24, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > > On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:17:43 +0000
> > > Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> > >>
> > >> The check of len being zero is redundant as it has already been
> > >> sanity checked for this value at the start of the function. Hence
> > >> it is impossible for this test to be true and so the redundant
> > >> code can be removed.
> > >
> > > Nope, it's not the same test, the initial test is
> > >
> > > if (len && !buf)
> >
> > Ah, the current tip from linux-next has:
> >
> > 1912 if (!len || !buf)
> > 1913 return -EINVAL;
> >
> > ..so I guess that's why it got picked up by static analysis.
>
> Hm, that's weird, that's not what I see [1] in linux-next.

This being said, the test in nand_readid_op() is wrong [1], so maybe
this was the thing you were trying to fix.

No need to send a new patch, I'll squash the fix in the commit
introducing the function.

Thanks,

Boris

[1]http://code.bulix.org/kxivhd-240572

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