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authorColin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>2019-05-10 10:58:32 +0100
committerPhilipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>2019-05-10 12:23:42 +0200
commitd5d4218e166978140beba3471d395bb6a0483c4b (patch)
treed591b2c7eef239e46bceada4e4ba484c042d842c
parente93c9c99a629c61837d5a7fc2120cd2b6c70dbdd (diff)
downloadlinux-next-d5d4218e166978140beba3471d395bb6a0483c4b.tar.gz
reset: remove redundant null check on pointer dev
Pointer dev is being dereferenced when passed to the inlined functon dev_name, however, dev is later being null checked so at first this seems like a potential null pointer dereference. In fact, _reset_control_get_from_lookup is only ever called from __reset_control_get, right after checking dev->of_node hence dev can never be null. Clean this up by removing the redundant null check. Thanks to Philipp Zabel for spotting that dev can never be null. Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference before null check") Fixes: 6691dffab0ab ("reset: add support for non-DT systems") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/reset/core.c3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/reset/core.c b/drivers/reset/core.c
index 9582efb70025..25eaa61e745e 100644
--- a/drivers/reset/core.c
+++ b/drivers/reset/core.c
@@ -551,9 +551,6 @@ __reset_control_get_from_lookup(struct device *dev, const char *con_id,
const char *dev_id = dev_name(dev);
struct reset_control *rstc = NULL;
- if (!dev)
- return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
-
mutex_lock(&reset_lookup_mutex);
list_for_each_entry(lookup, &reset_lookup_list, list) {