Re: [patch] crypto: sha-mb - remove a bogus NULL check

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On Sat, 2014-11-22 at 21:36 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This can't be NULL and we dereferenced it earlier.  Smatch used to
> ignore these things where the pointer was obviously non-NULL but I've
> found that sometimes the intention was to check something else so we
> were maybe missing bugs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/crypto/sha-mb/sha1_mb.c b/arch/x86/crypto/sha-mb/sha1_mb.c
> index 99eefd8..a225a5ca 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/crypto/sha-mb/sha1_mb.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/crypto/sha-mb/sha1_mb.c
> @@ -204,8 +204,7 @@ static struct sha1_hash_ctx *sha1_ctx_mgr_resubmit(struct sha1_ctx_mgr *mgr, str
>  			continue;
>  		}
>  
> -		if (ctx)
> -			ctx->status = HASH_CTX_STS_IDLE;
> +		ctx->status = HASH_CTX_STS_IDLE;
>  		return ctx;
>  	}
>  

Agree.  This NULL pointer check is not necessary.

Acked-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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