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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [SCSI] esas2r: remove redundant NULL check on buffer
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On 03/15/2017 12:46 PM, Colin King wrote:
> 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);
>
> /*
>

Thanks,

Acked-by: Bradley Grove <bgrove@attotech.com>



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