[PATCH] ACPI / utils: remove redundant check if element is NULL
From: Colin King
Date: Sun Feb 28 2016 - 15:32:40 EST
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
element is &package->package.elements[i] which can never be NULL
so the check to see if it is NULL is redundant and can be removed.
Detected with static analysis by CoverityScan
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/utils.c | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/utils.c b/drivers/acpi/utils.c
index f2f9873..f12a724 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/utils.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/utils.c
@@ -201,10 +201,6 @@ acpi_extract_package(union acpi_object *package,
u8 **pointer = NULL;
union acpi_object *element = &(package->package.elements[i]);
- if (!element) {
- return AE_BAD_DATA;
- }
-
switch (element->type) {
case ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER:
--
2.7.0