On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 06:32:04PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger 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.
>
> 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
>
Series-acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com>
