[PATCH] staging: vc04_services: Delete unnecessary NULL check

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at linaro.org
Wed Apr 24 04:43:28 PDT 2024


The "state" pointer points to an offset in the middle of the "mgmt"
struct so it can't possibly be NULL.  And also we dereferenced it on the
line before.  So this NULL check is pointless.  Delete it.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at linaro.org>
---
 .../staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_dev.c    | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_dev.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_dev.c
index 9fe35864936c..3c63347d2d08 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_dev.c
@@ -1170,11 +1170,6 @@ static int vchiq_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 
 	dev_dbg(state->dev, "arm: vchiq open\n");
 
-	if (!state) {
-		dev_err(state->dev, "arm: vchiq has no connection to VideoCore\n");
-		return -ENOTCONN;
-	}
-
 	instance = kzalloc(sizeof(*instance), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!instance)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.43.0




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