linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] crypto: omap-sham: Remove useless check for non-null request

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Date:   Fri, 9 Mar 2018 23:19:53 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@...ia.com>,
        Kamil Konieczny <k.konieczny@...tner.samsung.com>,
        Tero Kristo <t-kristo@...com>, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] crypto: omap-sham: Remove useless check for non-null
 request

On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 09:50:10PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> ahash_request 'req' argument passed by the caller
> omap_sham_handle_queue() cannot be NULL here because it is obtained from
> non-NULL pointer via container_of().
> 
> This fixes smatch warning:
>     drivers/crypto/omap-sham.c:812 omap_sham_prepare_request() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'req' (see line 805)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>

All applied.  Thanks.
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