Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] cxgb4: remove redundant NULL check

From: Raju Rangoju <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 12:04:27 +0530

On Tuesday, January 01/26/21, 2021 at 10:50:13 +0800, Yang Li wrote:
> Fix below warnings reported by coccicheck:
> ./drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/clip_tbl.c:323:3-9: WARNING:
> NULL check before some freeing functions is not needed.
> ./drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cudbg_lib.c:3554:2-8: WARNING:
> NULL check before some freeing functions is not needed.
> ./drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_cudbg.c:157:2-7: WARNING:
> NULL check before some freeing functions is not needed.
> ./drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_tc_u32.c:525:3-9: WARNING:
> NULL check before some freeing functions is not needed.
> 
> Reported-by: Abaci Robot <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Li <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/clip_tbl.c     | 3 +--
>  drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cudbg_lib.c    | 3 +--
>  drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_cudbg.c  | 3 +--
>  drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_tc_u32.c | 6 ++----
>  4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/clip_tbl.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/clip_tbl.c
> index ce28820..12fcf84 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/clip_tbl.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/clip_tbl.c
> @@ -323,8 +323,7 @@ void t4_cleanup_clip_tbl(struct adapter *adap)
>  	struct clip_tbl *ctbl = adap->clipt;
>  
>  	if (ctbl) {
> -		if (ctbl->cl_list)
> -			kvfree(ctbl->cl_list);
> +		kvfree(ctbl->cl_list);
>  		kvfree(ctbl);
>  	}
>  }
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cudbg_lib.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cudbg_lib.c
> index 75474f8..94eb8a6 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cudbg_lib.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cudbg_lib.c
> @@ -3554,8 +3554,7 @@ int cudbg_collect_qdesc(struct cudbg_init *pdbg_init,
>  	}
>  
>  out_free:
> -	if (data)
> -		kvfree(data);
> +	kvfree(data);
>  
>  #undef QDESC_GET_FLQ
>  #undef QDESC_GET_RXQ
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_cudbg.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_cudbg.c
> index 77648e4..dd66b24 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_cudbg.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_cudbg.c
> @@ -157,8 +157,7 @@ static int cudbg_alloc_compress_buff(struct cudbg_init *pdbg_init)
>  
>  static void cudbg_free_compress_buff(struct cudbg_init *pdbg_init)
>  {
> -	if (pdbg_init->compress_buff)

NAK. The above check is necessary.

pdbg_init->compress_buff may be NULL when Zlib is unavailable or when
pdbg_init->compress_buff allocation fails, in which case we ignore error
and continue without compression. Check is necessary before calling
vfree().

> -		vfree(pdbg_init->compress_buff);
> +	vfree(pdbg_init->compress_buff);
>  }
>  
>  int cxgb4_cudbg_collect(struct adapter *adap, void *buf, u32 *buf_size,
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_tc_u32.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_tc_u32.c
> index dede025..97a811f 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_tc_u32.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_tc_u32.c
> @@ -525,12 +525,10 @@ struct cxgb4_tc_u32_table *cxgb4_init_tc_u32(struct adapter *adap)
>  	for (i = 0; i < t->size; i++) {
>  		struct cxgb4_link *link = &t->table[i];
>  
> -		if (link->tid_map)
> -			kvfree(link->tid_map);
> +		kvfree(link->tid_map);

The above change is wrong. NAK.

If the call to link->tid_map = kvcalloc() above fails, it still
goes ahead and calls kvfree(link->tid_map) even for failed cases, which is
wrong. Check is necessary before calling kvfree().

>  	}
> -	if (t)
> -		kvfree(t);
> +	kvfree(t);
>  	return NULL;
>  }
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1