[PATCH] crypto: stm32 - Remove unnecessary checks before calling memcpy

Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum at linux.dev
Fri Jan 9 06:20:36 PST 2026


memcpy() can be safely called with size 0, which is a no-op. Remove the
unnecessary checks before calling memcpy().

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum at linux.dev>
---
 drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32-hash.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32-hash.c b/drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32-hash.c
index a4436728b0db..d60147a7594e 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32-hash.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32-hash.c
@@ -1115,8 +1115,7 @@ static int stm32_hash_copy_sgs(struct stm32_hash_request_ctx *rctx,
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
-	if (state->bufcnt)
-		memcpy(buf, rctx->hdev->xmit_buf, state->bufcnt);
+	memcpy(buf, rctx->hdev->xmit_buf, state->bufcnt);
 
 	scatterwalk_map_and_copy(buf + state->bufcnt, sg, rctx->offset,
 				 min(new_len, rctx->total) - state->bufcnt, 0);
@@ -1300,8 +1299,7 @@ static int stm32_hash_prepare_request(struct ahash_request *req)
 	}
 
 	/* copy buffer in a temporary one that is used for sg alignment */
-	if (state->bufcnt)
-		memcpy(hdev->xmit_buf, state->buffer, state->bufcnt);
+	memcpy(hdev->xmit_buf, state->buffer, state->bufcnt);
 
 	ret = stm32_hash_align_sgs(req->src, nbytes, bs, init, final, rctx);
 	if (ret)
-- 
Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum at linux.dev>
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