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Subject[PATCH] [SCSI] esas2r: remove redundant NULL check on buffer
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From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

buffer is a pointer to the static char array event_buffer and
therefore can never be null, so the check is redundant. Remove it.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1077556 ("Logically Dead Code")

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
---
drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_log.c | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_log.c b/drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_log.c
index a82030a..65fdf22 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_log.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_log.c
@@ -130,11 +130,6 @@ static int esas2r_log_master(const long level,

spin_lock_irqsave(&event_buffer_lock, flags);

- if (buffer == NULL) {
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&event_buffer_lock, flags);
- return -1;
- }
-
memset(buffer, 0, buflen);

/*
--
2.10.2
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