Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Colin King <> | Subject | [PATCH] x86/microcode/AMD: remove redundant null check on mc | Date | Wed, 15 Mar 2017 17:10:10 +0000 |
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From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
mc is a pointer to the static u8 array amd_ucode_patch and therefore can never be null, so the check is redundant. Remove it.
Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1372871 ("Logically Dead Code")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c index 7889ae4..f2afe99 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c @@ -352,9 +352,6 @@ void reload_ucode_amd(void) u32 rev, dummy; mc = (struct microcode_amd *)amd_ucode_patch; - if (!mc) - return; - rdmsr(MSR_AMD64_PATCH_LEVEL, rev, dummy); if (rev < mc->hdr.patch_id) { -- 2.10.2
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