Re: [PATCH] input: synaptics-rmi4: remove redundant null check on rmi_dev

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Thu Dec 29 2016 - 13:21:13 EST


On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 02:41:04PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> rmi_dev is currently being dereferenced before it null checked,
> however, after deeper inspecting, rmi_dev can never be null,
> so just remove this redundant check. Thanks to Dmitry Torokhov for
> noticing that we can remove the null check.
>
> Fixes CoverityScan CID 1391218 ("Dereference before null check")
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thank you.

> ---
> drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_f03.c | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_f03.c b/drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_f03.c
> index 8a7ca3e..9a1b099 100644
> --- a/drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_f03.c
> +++ b/drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_f03.c
> @@ -175,9 +175,6 @@ static int rmi_f03_attention(struct rmi_function *fn, unsigned long *irq_bits)
> int i;
> int error;
>
> - if (!rmi_dev)
> - return -ENODEV;
> -
> if (drvdata->attn_data.data) {
> /* First grab the data passed by the transport device */
> if (drvdata->attn_data.size < ob_len) {
> --
> 2.10.2
>

--
Dmitry