Commit 3a8ca95e authored by Julia Lawall's avatar Julia Lawall Committed by Linus Torvalds

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

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/)

//<smpl>
@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
//</smpl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJulia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Thomas Sujith <sujith.thomas@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 95d8c365
......@@ -175,7 +175,6 @@ 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");
......@@ -188,7 +187,6 @@ static int intel_menlow_memory_add(struct acpi_device *device)
sysfs_remove_link(&device->dev.kobj, "thermal_cooling");
goto unregister;
}
}
end:
return result;
......
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