the variable sender is dereferenced in line 190, so it is no reason to check null again in line 198. Signed-off-by: Cong Ding <dinggnu@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c index 1d049be..b6b8e49 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c @@ -195,11 +195,9 @@ nouveau_fence_new(struct nouveau_channel *chan, struct nouveau_fence **pfence) return -ENOMEM; kref_init(&fence->kref); - if (chan) { - ret = nouveau_fence_emit(fence, chan); - if (ret) - nouveau_fence_unref(&fence); - } + ret = nouveau_fence_emit(fence, chan); + if (ret) + nouveau_fence_unref(&fence); *pfence = fence; return ret; -- 1.7.10.4 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel