From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 16:21:44 +0000 (+0100) Subject: tpm: st33zp24: remove redundant null check on chip X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f20b4f2245367e7471d844fb8685fd46f15c17db;p=linux.git tpm: st33zp24: remove redundant null check on chip Currently chip is being dereferenced by the call to dev_get_drvdata before it is being null checked, however, chip can never be null, so this check is misleading and redundant. Remove it. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1357806 ("Dereference before null check") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> --- diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24/st33zp24.c b/drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24/st33zp24.c index f95b9c75175bc..abd675bec88c8 100644 --- a/drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24/st33zp24.c +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24/st33zp24.c @@ -373,8 +373,6 @@ static int st33zp24_send(struct tpm_chip *chip, unsigned char *buf, int ret; u8 data; - if (!chip) - return -EBUSY; if (len < TPM_HEADER_SIZE) return -EBUSY;