hpet: remove useless check if fixmem32 is NULL
authorTomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Wed, 4 Sep 2013 12:35:52 +0000 (15:35 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:44:40 +0000 (08:44 -0700)
fixmem32 is assigned to address of res->data member
so the address is always valid

Actually since we are not checking for res != NULL
static analyzing is complaining about referencing the pointer
and consequent check for null.
The code snippet looks confusing also for human eyes.

Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/char/hpet.c

index 448ce5e29c561bcf4fb8d1a6d3013fb6339e69be..c8f43295d42acfd5ebb63127ab8b13525dc8e879 100644 (file)
@@ -971,8 +971,6 @@ static acpi_status hpet_resources(struct acpi_resource *res, void *data)
                struct acpi_resource_fixed_memory32 *fixmem32;
 
                fixmem32 = &res->data.fixed_memory32;
-               if (!fixmem32)
-                       return AE_NO_MEMORY;
 
                hdp->hd_phys_address = fixmem32->address;
                hdp->hd_address = ioremap(fixmem32->address,