From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:00:09 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: drivers/cpuidle: Move dereference after NULL test
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.33-rc1~173
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=faa7b7ddca14887ac037f585d2fac7ca6c57037e;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-3.10.git

drivers/cpuidle: Move dereference after NULL test

It does not seem possible that ldev can be NULL, so drop the unnecessary
test.  If ldev can somehow be NULL, then the initialization of last_idx
should be moved below the test.

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

// <smpl>
@match exists@
expression x, E;
identifier fld;
@@

* x->fld
  ... when != \(x = E\|&x\)
* x == NULL
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c
index a4bec3f..1c1ceb4 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c
@@ -69,9 +69,6 @@ static int ladder_select_state(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
 	int last_residency, last_idx = ldev->last_state_idx;
 	int latency_req = pm_qos_requirement(PM_QOS_CPU_DMA_LATENCY);
 
-	if (unlikely(!ldev))
-		return 0;
-
 	/* Special case when user has set very strict latency requirement */
 	if (unlikely(latency_req == 0)) {
 		ladder_do_selection(ldev, last_idx, 0);