imx_dsp_get_data() can return NULL, but the value is not checked before being usd, leading to static analysis warnings. sound/soc/sof/imx/imx8.c:85:32: error: dereference of NULL ‘0’ [CWE-476] [-Werror=analyzer-null-dereference] 85 | spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->sdev->ipc_lock, flags); | ~~~~^~~~~~ It appears this is not really a possible problem, so remove those checks. Signed-off-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Rander Wang <rander.wang@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Yaochun Hung <yc.hung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/firmware/imx/dsp.h | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/firmware/imx/dsp.h b/include/linux/firmware/imx/dsp.h index 4f7895a3b73c..1f176a2683fe 100644 --- a/include/linux/firmware/imx/dsp.h +++ b/include/linux/firmware/imx/dsp.h @@ -37,17 +37,11 @@ struct imx_dsp_ipc { static inline void imx_dsp_set_data(struct imx_dsp_ipc *ipc, void *data) { - if (!ipc) - return; - ipc->private_data = data; } static inline void *imx_dsp_get_data(struct imx_dsp_ipc *ipc) { - if (!ipc) - return NULL; - return ipc->private_data; } -- 2.39.2