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

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Date:   Tue, 14 Mar 2017 08:00:40 +0530
From:   Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] engine: mv_xor: remove redundant null check on cd

On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 02:07:21PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> 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")

Applied after fixing subsystem name

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~Vinod