linux-kernel - [PATCH] engine: mv_xor: remove redundant null check on cd

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Date:   Wed,  1 Mar 2017 14:07:21 +0000
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        dmaengine@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] engine: mv_xor: remove redundant null check on cd

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

The check to see if cd is null is redundant, pdata->channels is
never null at this point, and hence &pdata->channels[i] cannot
be null, so remove the null check.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1357194 ("Logically Dead Code")

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/dma/mv_xor.c | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/mv_xor.c b/drivers/dma/mv_xor.c
index 0cb951b..ea53b87 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/mv_xor.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/mv_xor.c
@@ -1580,11 +1580,6 @@ static int mv_xor_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 			int irq;
 
 			cd = &pdata->channels[i];
-			if (!cd) {
-				ret = -ENODEV;
-				goto err_channel_add;
-			}
-
 			irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, i);
 			if (irq < 0) {
 				ret = irq;
-- 
2.10.2