We dereferenced params on the line before so it's too late to check if params is NULL. In fact, params can never be NULL and strict_cos is either 0 or 1 so that part of the check is bogus too. Let's remove it. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_link.c b/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_link.c index 97cbee2..43b0de2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_link.c +++ b/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_link.c @@ -354,9 +354,6 @@ u8 bnx2x_ets_strict(const struct link_params *params, const u8 strict_cos) struct bnx2x *bp = params->bp; u32 val = 0; - if ((1 < strict_cos) && (NULL == params)) - return -EINVAL; - DP(NETIF_MSG_LINK, "ETS enabled strict configuration\n"); /** * Bitmap of 5bits length. Each bit specifies whether the entry behaves -- 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