[PATCH -next 5/5] USB: usbip: Remove an unnecessary NULL value

shuah shuah at kernel.org
Sat Aug 5 06:09:11 AEST 2023


On 8/4/23 03:32, Ruan Jinjie wrote:
> The NULL initialization of the pointers assigned by kzalloc() first is
> not necessary, because if the kzalloc() failed, the pointers will be
> assigned NULL, otherwise it works as usual. so remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ruan Jinjie <ruanjinjie at huawei.com>
> ---
>   drivers/usb/usbip/vudc_dev.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/usbip/vudc_dev.c b/drivers/usb/usbip/vudc_dev.c
> index 2bc428f2e261..8e42839e6060 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/usbip/vudc_dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/usbip/vudc_dev.c
> @@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ static void vudc_device_unusable(struct usbip_device *ud)
>   
>   struct vudc_device *alloc_vudc_device(int devid)
>   {
> -	struct vudc_device *udc_dev = NULL;
> +	struct vudc_device *udc_dev;
>   
>   	udc_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*udc_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
>   	if (!udc_dev)

In addition to this, make a change to return NULL instead
of going to out.

if (!udc_dev)
                 goto out;

thanks,
-- Shuah



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