Re: [PATCH][V3] regulator: axp20x: remove a redundant null check on rdev

[Chen-Yu Tsai]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 5:46 PM Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Currently rdev is dereferenced when assigning desc before rdev is null
> checked, this is leading to static analysis warnings.  However, rdev
> can never be null, so the null check is redundant and can be removed.
>
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1476031 ("Dereference before null check")
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> Fixes: 77e3e3b165db ("regulator: axp20x: add software based soft_start for AXP209 LDO3")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@xxxxxxxx>