[PATCH 1/2] coresight: stm: Remove redundant NULL checks

Leo Yan leo.yan at arm.com
Wed Jun 11 07:44:01 PDT 2025


container_of() cannot return NULL, so the checks for NULL pointers are
unnecessary and can be safely removed.

As a result, this commit silences the following smatch warnings:

  coresight-stm.c:345 stm_generic_link() warn: can 'drvdata' even be NULL?
  coresight-stm.c:356 stm_generic_unlink() warn: can 'drvdata' even be NULL?
  coresight-stm.c:387 stm_generic_set_options() warn: can 'drvdata' even be NULL?
  coresight-stm.c:422 stm_generic_packet() warn: can 'drvdata' even be NULL?

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan at arm.com>
---
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-stm.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-stm.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-stm.c
index e45c6c7204b4491e0f879bc7d5d445aa1d3118be..464b0c85c3f7d3519169d62a51e9f8c6281b5358 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-stm.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-stm.c
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ static int stm_generic_link(struct stm_data *stm_data,
 {
 	struct stm_drvdata *drvdata = container_of(stm_data,
 						   struct stm_drvdata, stm);
-	if (!drvdata || !drvdata->csdev)
+	if (!drvdata->csdev)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	return coresight_enable_sysfs(drvdata->csdev);
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ static void stm_generic_unlink(struct stm_data *stm_data,
 {
 	struct stm_drvdata *drvdata = container_of(stm_data,
 						   struct stm_drvdata, stm);
-	if (!drvdata || !drvdata->csdev)
+	if (!drvdata->csdev)
 		return;
 
 	coresight_disable_sysfs(drvdata->csdev);
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ static long stm_generic_set_options(struct stm_data *stm_data,
 {
 	struct stm_drvdata *drvdata = container_of(stm_data,
 						   struct stm_drvdata, stm);
-	if (!(drvdata && coresight_get_mode(drvdata->csdev)))
+	if (!coresight_get_mode(drvdata->csdev))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (channel >= drvdata->numsp)
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ static ssize_t notrace stm_generic_packet(struct stm_data *stm_data,
 						   struct stm_drvdata, stm);
 	unsigned int stm_flags;
 
-	if (!(drvdata && coresight_get_mode(drvdata->csdev)))
+	if (!coresight_get_mode(drvdata->csdev))
 		return -EACCES;
 
 	if (channel >= drvdata->numsp)

-- 
2.34.1




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