[alsa-devel] [patch] ASoC: sun4i-i2s: remove some dead code

[Maxime Ripard]

Hi Dan,

On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 04:19:34PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> "i2s->rst" is either NULL or a valid pointer.  We won't probe
> successfully if it's an error pointer.  That means these checks can be
> removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
> 
> diff --git a/sound/soc/sunxi/sun4i-i2s.c b/sound/soc/sunxi/sun4i-i2s.c
> index 3635bbc72cbc..d79be3e4361b 100644
> --- a/sound/soc/sunxi/sun4i-i2s.c
> +++ b/sound/soc/sunxi/sun4i-i2s.c
> @@ -723,13 +723,11 @@ static int sun4i_i2s_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> -	if (!IS_ERR(i2s->rst)) {
> -		ret = reset_control_deassert(i2s->rst);
> -		if (ret) {
> -			dev_err(&pdev->dev,
> -				"Failed to deassert the reset control\n");
> -			return -EINVAL;
> -		}
> +	ret = reset_control_deassert(i2s->rst);
> +	if (ret) {
> +		dev_err(&pdev->dev,
> +			"Failed to deassert the reset control\n");
> +		return -EINVAL;

In the case where has_reset is false, rst is NULL and will trigger a
WARN_ON in reset_control_deassert.

The proper fix would be to move it in the previous if block, or to
change the IS_ERR check for a NULL check.

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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