[PATCH v3 00/14] Remove unnecessary function pointer deref

[David Marchand]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM Stephen Hemminger
<stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
>
> A common pattern in DPDK internals is to have an array of function
> pointers. When using these pointers an unnecessary derefence is done;
> this is allowed in C because of a historical quirk but unnecessary.
>
> This fixes all instances of PVS Studio checker warning:
>  https://pvs-studio.com/en/docs/warnings/v516/
>
> This leads to a large number of warnings marked as High severity.
> This patchset simplifies the source and gets rid of these warnings.
>
> v3 - remove unnecessary paren in ethdev ip_reassembly capability
>
> Stephen Hemminger (14):
>   ethdev: remove unnecessary deref on function pointers
>   eventdev: remover unnecessary deref on function pointers
>   net/bonding: remove unnecessary deref of function pointers
>   net/ixgbe: remove unnecessary dereference
>   net/ipn3ke: remove unnecessary dereference
>   net/memif: remove unnecessary deref of function pointers
>   cryptodev: remove unnecessary deref of function pointers
>   crypto/scheduler: remove unnecessary dereference
>   compressdev: remove unnecessary deref of function pointers
>   dmadev: remove unnecessary deref of function pointers
>   rawdev: remove unnecessary deref of function pointers
>   mldev: remove unnecessary deref of function pointers
>   regexdev: remove unnecessary deref of function pointers
>   security: remove unnecessary dereference

I fixed a few missed occurences in touched libraries.
Series applied, thanks.


I noticed there are some occurences in lib/jobstats, lib/port and lib/vhost.
Would it be possible to have a coccinelle script for this?


-- 
David Marchand