linux-kernel - [PATCH] tpm: st33zp24: remove redundant null check on chip

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Date:   Fri,  6 Apr 2018 17:21:44 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] tpm: st33zp24: remove redundant null check on chip

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

Currently chip is being dereferenced by the call to dev_get_drvdata
before it is being null checked, however, chip can never be null, so
this check is misleading and redundant. Remove it.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1357806 ("Dereference before null check")

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

---

V2: don't check for null, just remove redundant null check,
    thanks to Jason Gunthorpe for spotting that.

---
 drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24/st33zp24.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24/st33zp24.c b/drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24/st33zp24.c
index f95b9c75175b..abd675bec88c 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24/st33zp24.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24/st33zp24.c
@@ -373,8 +373,6 @@ static int st33zp24_send(struct tpm_chip *chip, unsigned char *buf,
 	int ret;
 	u8 data;
 
-	if (!chip)
-		return -EBUSY;
 	if (len < TPM_HEADER_SIZE)
 		return -EBUSY;
 
-- 
2.15.1