* [PATCH 11/14] drivers/s390: Eliminate NULL test and memset after alloc_bootmem
@ 2008-06-24 8:25 Julia Lawall
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From: Julia Lawall @ 2008-06-24 8:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: akinobu.mita, schwidefsky, heiko.carstens, linux390, linux-s390,
linux-kernel, kernel-janitors
From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
As noted by Akinobu Mita in patch b1fceac2b9e04d278316b2faddf276015fc06e3b,
alloc_bootmem and related functions never return NULL and always return a
zeroed region of memory. Thus a NULL test or memset after calls to these
functions is unnecessary.
drivers/s390/char/raw3270.c | 11 +----------
drivers/s390/char/sclp_con.c | 2 --
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 12 deletions(-)
This was fixed using the following semantic patch.
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
// <smpl>
@@
expression E;
statement S;
@@
E = \(alloc_bootmem\|alloc_bootmem_low\|alloc_bootmem_pages\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages\)(...)
... when != E
(
- BUG_ON (E == NULL);
|
- if (E == NULL) S
)
@@
expression E,E1;
@@
E = \(alloc_bootmem\|alloc_bootmem_low\|alloc_bootmem_pages\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages\)(...)
... when != E
- memset(E,0,E1);
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
---
diff -u -p a/drivers/s390/char/raw3270.c b/drivers/s390/char/raw3270.c
--- a/drivers/s390/char/raw3270.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/char/raw3270.c
@@ -153,19 +153,10 @@ struct raw3270_request __init *raw3270_r
struct raw3270_request *rq;
rq = alloc_bootmem_low(sizeof(struct raw3270));
- if (!rq)
- return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
- memset(rq, 0, sizeof(struct raw3270_request));
/* alloc output buffer. */
- if (size > 0) {
+ if (size > 0)
rq->buffer = alloc_bootmem_low(size);
- if (!rq->buffer) {
- free_bootmem((unsigned long) rq,
- sizeof(struct raw3270));
- return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
- }
- }
rq->size = size;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rq->list);
diff -u -p a/drivers/s390/char/sclp_con.c b/drivers/s390/char/sclp_con.c
--- a/drivers/s390/char/sclp_con.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/char/sclp_con.c
@@ -222,8 +222,6 @@ sclp_console_init(void)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sclp_con_pages);
for (i = 0; i < MAX_CONSOLE_PAGES; i++) {
page = alloc_bootmem_low_pages(PAGE_SIZE);
- if (page == NULL)
- return -ENOMEM;
list_add_tail((struct list_head *) page, &sclp_con_pages);
}
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sclp_con_outqueue);
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