Re: [patch] iscsi-target: remove some dead code

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On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:30:38PM +0200, walter harms wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 17.05.2012 12:26, schrieb Dan Carpenter:
> > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:58:40AM +0200, walter harms wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Am 17.05.2012 09:08, schrieb Dan Carpenter:
> >>> Neither "acceptor_values" nor "proposer_values" can be NULL here.
> >>> Smatch complains because we are not allowed to pass NULL pointers to
> >>> strchr().
> >>>
> >>> Also I removed a second later check for "!acceptor_values" because it
> >>> gets checked on the next line in the do while condition.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> ---
> >>> Compile tested only.  Please review carefully.
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c
> >>> index ad3b3c1..ed5241e 100644
> >>> --- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c
> >>> +++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c
> >>> @@ -1037,13 +1037,6 @@ static char *iscsi_check_valuelist_for_support(
> >>>  			tmp2 = strchr(acceptor_values, ',');
> >>>  			if (tmp2)
> >>>  				*tmp2 = '\0';
> >> this looks like strchrnul(). I realy do not know is this supported inside the kernel ?
> >>
> > 
> > It can't be NULL here.  Adding bogus checks is the wrong idea and
> > static checkers are right to ask about needless checks.
> > 
> sorry i was writing (talking) about something different.
> the construction:
> ....
>  v=strchr()
>  if (v==NULL)
>    return '\0'
> ...
> is like strchrnul() in glibc. Maybe this pattern is used more than once inside the kernel code.

No no.  My mistake I didn't know what strchrnul() did.  But there
isn't a kernel version of that function.

regards,
dan carpenter

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