From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:46:24 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: scsi: esas2r: Remove redundant NULL check on buffer
X-Git-Tag: Ubuntu-5.10.0-12.13~10392^2~149
X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=33bd712be7d2e3bd60262957052abc19c71c4765;p=mirror_ubuntu-hirsute-kernel.git

scsi: esas2r: Remove redundant NULL check on buffer

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>
Acked-by: Bradley Grove <bgrove@attotech.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
---

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_log.c b/drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_log.c
index a82030aa8577..65fdf22b0ba9 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);
 
 		/*