[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/6] fdt: boot_get_fdt: remove redundant zeroing out
Eugeniu Rosca
roscaeugeniu at gmail.com
Sun Mar 31 02:08:33 UTC 2019
Paranoid programming [1] lies at the foundation of proper software
development, but the repetitive zeroint-out of output arguments in the
context of the same function rather clutters the code and inhibits
further refactoring/optimization than is doing any good.
In boot_get_fdt(), we already perform zero/NULL-initialization of
*of_flat_tree and *of_size at the beginning of the function, so doing
the same at function error-out is redundant/superfluous.
Moreover, keeping the code unchanged might encourage the developers to
update *of_flat_tree and *of_size during some interim computations,
which is against the current design of boot_get_fdt(). Currently,
writing useful data into these arguments happens just before
successfully returning from boot_get_fdt() and it should better stay so.
[1] https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1106
Signed-off-by: Eugeniu Rosca <erosca at de.adit-jv.com>
---
common/image-fdt.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/common/image-fdt.c b/common/image-fdt.c
index 01186aeac7a4..1817ce6bce30 100644
--- a/common/image-fdt.c
+++ b/common/image-fdt.c
@@ -489,8 +489,6 @@ int boot_get_fdt(int flag, int argc, char * const argv[], uint8_t arch,
no_fdt:
ok_no_fdt = 1;
error:
- *of_flat_tree = NULL;
- *of_size = 0;
if (!select && ok_no_fdt) {
debug("Continuing to boot without FDT\n");
return 0;
--
2.21.0
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