linux-kernel - [PATCH 10/10] misc: ti-st: don't check for tty data == NULL

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Date:   Mon, 31 Jul 2023 10:02:44 +0200
From:   "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@...nel.org>
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: [PATCH 10/10] misc: ti-st: don't check for tty data == NULL

tty data passed to tty_ldisc_ops::receive_buf() are never NULL. Remove
this check.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) <jirislaby@...nel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
---
 drivers/misc/ti-st/st_core.c | 3 +--
 drivers/misc/ti-st/st_kim.c  | 5 -----
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/ti-st/st_core.c b/drivers/misc/ti-st/st_core.c
index e2add50b191c..3b2145722bd7 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ti-st/st_core.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ti-st/st_core.c
@@ -234,8 +234,7 @@ static void st_int_recv(void *disc_data,
 	struct st_data_s *st_gdata = (struct st_data_s *)disc_data;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
-	/* tty_receive sent null ? */
-	if (unlikely(ptr == NULL) || (st_gdata == NULL)) {
+	if (st_gdata == NULL) {
 		pr_err(" received null from TTY ");
 		return;
 	}
diff --git a/drivers/misc/ti-st/st_kim.c b/drivers/misc/ti-st/st_kim.c
index 8c801897ffa2..5431a89924aa 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ti-st/st_kim.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ti-st/st_kim.c
@@ -135,11 +135,6 @@ static void kim_int_recv(struct kim_data_s *kim_gdata,
 
 	pr_debug("%s", __func__);
 	/* Decode received bytes here */
-	if (unlikely(ptr == NULL)) {
-		pr_err(" received null from TTY ");
-		return;
-	}
-
 	while (count) {
 		if (kim_gdata->rx_count) {
 			len = min_t(unsigned int, kim_gdata->rx_count, count);
-- 
2.41.0