From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> element is &package->package.elements[i] which can never be NULL so the check to see if it is NULL is redundant and can be removed. Detected with static analysis by CoverityScan Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/utils.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/utils.c b/drivers/acpi/utils.c index f2f9873..f12a724 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/utils.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/utils.c @@ -201,10 +201,6 @@ acpi_extract_package(union acpi_object *package, u8 **pointer = NULL; union acpi_object *element = &(package->package.elements[i]); - if (!element) { - return AE_BAD_DATA; - } - switch (element->type) { case ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER: -- 2.7.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html