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authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>2014-01-30 06:49:43 -0500
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2014-02-08 20:59:27 -0500
commitd167b6e1fb8ad386b17485ca88804d14f1695805 (patch)
tree17edae29c16bc089530bf54512ca5f51de88d399 /drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
parentfecfd7f7e91fc1e82d44b0e64a6bda8133f2037b (diff)
hwrng: cleanup in hwrng_register()
My static checker complains that: drivers/char/hw_random/core.c:341 hwrng_register() warn: we tested 'old_rng' before and it was 'false' The problem is that sometimes we test "if (!old_rng)" and sometimes we test "if (must_register_misc)". The static checker knows they are equivalent but a human being reading the code could easily be confused. I have simplified the code by removing the "must_register_misc" variable and I have removed the redundant check on "if (!old_rng)". Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/hw_random/core.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/hw_random/core.c10
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
index a0f7724852eb..cf49f1c88f01 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -302,7 +302,6 @@ err_misc_dereg:
302 302
303int hwrng_register(struct hwrng *rng) 303int hwrng_register(struct hwrng *rng)
304{ 304{
305 int must_register_misc;
306 int err = -EINVAL; 305 int err = -EINVAL;
307 struct hwrng *old_rng, *tmp; 306 struct hwrng *old_rng, *tmp;
308 307
@@ -327,7 +326,6 @@ int hwrng_register(struct hwrng *rng)
327 goto out_unlock; 326 goto out_unlock;
328 } 327 }
329 328
330 must_register_misc = (current_rng == NULL);
331 old_rng = current_rng; 329 old_rng = current_rng;
332 if (!old_rng) { 330 if (!old_rng) {
333 err = hwrng_init(rng); 331 err = hwrng_init(rng);
@@ -336,13 +334,11 @@ int hwrng_register(struct hwrng *rng)
336 current_rng = rng; 334 current_rng = rng;
337 } 335 }
338 err = 0; 336 err = 0;
339 if (must_register_misc) { 337 if (!old_rng) {
340 err = register_miscdev(); 338 err = register_miscdev();
341 if (err) { 339 if (err) {
342 if (!old_rng) { 340 hwrng_cleanup(rng);
343 hwrng_cleanup(rng); 341 current_rng = NULL;
344 current_rng = NULL;
345 }
346 goto out_unlock; 342 goto out_unlock;
347 } 343 }
348 } 344 }