drivers/char/mmtimer.c: eliminate useless code
authorJulia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:23:52 +0000 (15:23 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:52:43 +0000 (15:52 -0800)
commit0fbcae222b8aa3a47034a484e02e7fc14050c783
treebd1dc7bb8c912e7f29f490aebcf7270141072e26
parent582ef52a5d5650931f6d76c81d824bd98419ac8a
drivers/char/mmtimer.c: eliminate useless code

The variable x is initialized twice to the same (side effect-free)
expression.  Drop one initialization.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@forall@
idexpression *x;
identifier f!=ERR_PTR;
@@

x = f(...)
... when != x
(
x = f(...,<+...x...+>,...)
|
* x = f(...)
)
// </smpl>

Stefan observed:

  The next x = rb_entry(mn->next, struct mmtimer, list); is preceded by a
  test whether mn->next is NULL.

  Unless that test is redundant too, your patch fixes a potential NULL
  pointer dereference, introduced by commit cbacdd95 "SGI Altix mmtimer:
  allow larger number of timers per node" in 2.6.26.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/char/mmtimer.c