Colin reports that Coverity complains about checking for poll being non-zero after having dereferenced it multiple times. This is a valid complaint, and actually a leftover from back when this code was based on the aio poll code. Kill the redundant check. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/fe70c532-e2a7-3722-58a1-0fa4e5c5ff2c@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c index 7167c61c6d1b..d94fb5835a20 100644 --- a/fs/io_uring.c +++ b/fs/io_uring.c @@ -4956,7 +4956,7 @@ static int io_poll_double_wake(struct wait_queue_entry *wait, unsigned mode, list_del_init(&wait->entry); - if (poll && poll->head) { + if (poll->head) { bool done; spin_lock(&poll->head->lock); -- Jens Axboe