ahash_request 'req' argument passed by the caller omap_sham_handle_queue() cannot be NULL here because it is obtained from non-NULL pointer via container_of(). This fixes smatch warning: drivers/crypto/omap-sham.c:812 omap_sham_prepare_request() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'req' (see line 805) Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/crypto/omap-sham.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/crypto/omap-sham.c b/drivers/crypto/omap-sham.c index 86b89ace836f..7650b1b449bb 100644 --- a/drivers/crypto/omap-sham.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/omap-sham.c @@ -809,9 +809,6 @@ static int omap_sham_prepare_request(struct ahash_request *req, bool update) bool final = rctx->flags & BIT(FLAGS_FINUP); int xmit_len, hash_later; - if (!req) - return 0; - bs = get_block_size(rctx); if (update) -- 2.7.4