[PATCH v7 01/14] usb: chipidea: remove unneeded NULL check
Marek Vasut
marex at denx.de
Tue Jun 26 17:51:33 EDT 2012
Dear Richard Zhao,
> From: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin at linux.intel.com>
>
> As reported by Dan Carpenter, there is a NULL check in udc_start() that
> follows a dereference of the pointer that's being checked. However, at
> that point udc pointer shouldn't ever be NULL and if it is, the dereference
> should cause an oops.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin at linux.intel.com>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
> Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi at ti.com>
This seems correct, please add my:
Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> ---
> drivers/usb/chipidea/udc.c | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/chipidea/udc.c b/drivers/usb/chipidea/udc.c
> index 51f9694..cdb9212 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/chipidea/udc.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/chipidea/udc.c
> @@ -1647,9 +1647,6 @@ static int udc_start(struct ci13xxx *udc)
> struct device *dev = udc->dev;
> int retval = 0;
>
> - if (!udc)
> - return -EINVAL;
> -
> spin_lock_init(&udc->lock);
>
> udc->gadget.ops = &usb_gadget_ops;
Best regards,
Marek Vasut
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