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

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 17:52:50 +0100
David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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?

It would be hard because coccinelle infers types, and each function pointer
has a different signature.