staging: vt6656: Remove unnecesssary NULL check
authorTobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:39:12 +0000 (15:39 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 15 May 2014 20:23:03 +0000 (13:23 -0700)
pFifoHead points to tx_buffer->fifo_head which can never be NULL.
We also don't need to check for tx_buffer being NULL instead, since it
always points to ->Data of struct vnt_usb_send_context - the pointer to
which was checked before calling s_vGenerateTxParameter().

Silences a dereference before NULL check warning reported by the coverity
scanner in CID 1127221.

Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/vt6656/rxtx.c

index 1ff1446..abd1a26 100644 (file)
@@ -813,9 +813,6 @@ static u16 s_vGenerateTxParameter(struct vnt_private *pDevice,
        else if (wFifoCtl & FIFOCTL_AUTO_FB_1)
                byFBOption = AUTO_FB_1;
 
-       if (!pFifoHead)
-               return 0;
-
        if (byPktType == PK_TYPE_11GB || byPktType == PK_TYPE_11GA) {
                if (need_rts) {
                        struct vnt_rrv_time_rts *pBuf =