[PATCH] [SCSI] esas2r: remove redundant NULL check on buffer

[PATCH] [SCSI] esas2r: remove redundant NULL check on buffer

[Colin King]

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

Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] esas2r: remove redundant NULL check on buffer

[Bradley Grove]

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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Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] esas2r: remove redundant NULL check on buffer

[Martin K. Petersen]

Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> writes:

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

Applied to 4.12/scsi-queue. Thank you!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering