The return here doesn't release the locks or re-enable IRQs. But as Andrew Morton points out, domain is never NULL. list_first_entry() essentially never returns NULL and also we already verified that the list is not empty. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/dca/dca-core.c b/drivers/dca/dca-core.c index b98c676..c461eda 100644 --- a/drivers/dca/dca-core.c +++ b/drivers/dca/dca-core.c @@ -110,8 +110,6 @@ static void unregister_dca_providers(void) /* at this point only one domain in the list is expected */ domain = list_first_entry(&dca_domains, struct dca_domain, node); - if (!domain) - return; list_for_each_entry_safe(dca, _dca, &domain->dca_providers, node) { list_del(&dca->node); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html