linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: atomisp: remove redundant check for client being null

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Sat, 11 Mar 2017 19:48:19 +0000
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: atomisp: remove redundant check for client being null

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

The previous statement checks if client is null, so the null check
when assigning dev is redundant and can be removed.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1416555 ("Logically Dead Code")

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 .../staging/media/atomisp/platform/intel-mid/atomisp_gmin_platform.c    | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/platform/intel-mid/atomisp_gmin_platform.c b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/platform/intel-mid/atomisp_gmin_platform.c
index 65513ca..2929492 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/platform/intel-mid/atomisp_gmin_platform.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/platform/intel-mid/atomisp_gmin_platform.c
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ static struct gmin_subdev *gmin_subdev_add(struct v4l2_subdev *subdev)
 	if (!client)
 		return NULL;
 
-	dev = client ? &client->dev : NULL;
+	dev = &client->dev;
 
 	for (i=0; i < MAX_SUBDEVS && gmin_subdevs[i].subdev; i++)
 		;
-- 
2.10.2