Remove ASSERT()s on vCPU and APIC structures being non-NULL in the local APIC code as the DEBUG=1 path of ASSERT() ends with BUG(), i.e. isn't meaningfully better for debugging than a NULL pointer dereference. For all intents and purposes, no functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson --- arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c index 1597dd0b0cc6..558adcb67171 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c @@ -1048,7 +1048,6 @@ bool kvm_apic_match_dest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_lapic *source, struct kvm_lapic *target = vcpu->arch.apic; u32 mda = kvm_apic_mda(vcpu, dest, source, target); - ASSERT(target); switch (shorthand) { case APIC_DEST_NOSHORT: if (dest_mode == APIC_DEST_PHYSICAL) @@ -1607,8 +1606,6 @@ static u32 apic_get_tmcct(struct kvm_lapic *apic) ktime_t remaining, now; s64 ns; - ASSERT(apic != NULL); - /* if initial count is 0, current count should also be 0 */ if (kvm_lapic_get_reg(apic, APIC_TMICT) == 0 || apic->lapic_timer.period == 0) @@ -3000,8 +2997,6 @@ int kvm_create_lapic(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) { struct kvm_lapic *apic; - ASSERT(vcpu != NULL); - if (!irqchip_in_kernel(vcpu->kvm)) { static_branch_inc(&kvm_has_noapic_vcpu); return 0; -- 2.52.0.223.gf5cc29aaa4-goog