linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][V2] dmaengine: bcm-scm-raid: remove redundant null check on req

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Date:   Fri, 19 May 2017 08:55:50 +0530
From:   Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Anup Patel <anup.patel@...adcom.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][V2] dmaengine: bcm-scm-raid: remove redundant null check
 on req

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:58:50PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Req is never null on at the point of the null check, so
> remove this redundant check and just return &req->tx.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1436147 ("Logically dead code")


Applied, thanks

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~Vinod