[PATCH] staging: vc04_services: Delete unnecessary NULL check

[Umang Jain]

HI Dan,

Thank you for the patch

On 24/04/24 5:13 pm, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 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>

Reviewed-by: Umang Jain <umang.jain at ideasonboard.com>
> ---
>   .../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;