linux-kernel - [PATCH] ACPI / utils: remove redundant check if element is NULL

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Date:	Sun, 28 Feb 2016 20:31:49 +0000
From:	Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ACPI / utils: remove redundant check if element is NULL

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

element is &package->package.elements[i] which can never be NULL
so the check to see if it is NULL is redundant and can be removed.

Detected with static analysis by CoverityScan

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/acpi/utils.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/utils.c b/drivers/acpi/utils.c
index f2f9873..f12a724 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/utils.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/utils.c
@@ -201,10 +201,6 @@ acpi_extract_package(union acpi_object *package,
 		u8 **pointer = NULL;
 		union acpi_object *element = &(package->package.elements[i]);
 
-		if (!element) {
-			return AE_BAD_DATA;
-		}
-
 		switch (element->type) {
 
 		case ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER:
-- 
2.7.0