Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] ice: remove an unneeded NULL check

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On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 04:18:35PM +0000, Allan, Bruce W wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> > Of Dan Carpenter
> > Sent: Friday, October 12, 2018 12:17 AM
> > To: Kirsher, Jeffrey T <jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx>; Ertman, David M
> > <david.m.ertman@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: kernel-janitors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; intel-wired-lan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] ice: remove an unneeded NULL check
> > 
> > We added a NULL check in commit 072f0c3db9da ("ice: Fix potential null
> > pointer issues") but it causes static checker warnings.
> 
> Which static checker and with what options?
> 

Future versions of Smatch will complain probably.  It turns out there
are many many unnecessary NULL checks and they seldome indicate a bug so
I'm waffling on this...

regards,
dan carpenter




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