We can remove the NULL check here. It triggers a Smatch warning because list_first_entry() never is NULL and people who check for it normally intend to check for list_empty() instead. In these cases however, we've already verified that the lists are not empty. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_pipe.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_pipe.c index b277b34..b21a69f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_pipe.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_pipe.c @@ -108,8 +108,6 @@ static void get_htc_packet_credit_based(struct htc_target *target, /* get packet at head, but don't remove it */ packet = list_first_entry(&ep->txq, struct htc_packet, list); - if (packet == NULL) - break; ath6kl_dbg(ATH6KL_DBG_HTC, "%s: got head packet:0x%p , queue depth: %d\n", @@ -803,8 +801,6 @@ static int htc_send_packets_multiple(struct htc_target *target, /* get first packet to find out which ep the packets will go into */ packet = list_first_entry(pkt_queue, struct htc_packet, list); - if (packet == NULL) - return -EINVAL; if (packet->endpoint >= ENDPOINT_MAX) { WARN_ON_ONCE(1); @@ -1636,10 +1632,6 @@ static int ath6kl_htc_pipe_add_rxbuf_multiple(struct htc_target *target, return -EINVAL; first = list_first_entry(pkt_queue, struct htc_packet, list); - if (first == NULL) { - WARN_ON_ONCE(1); - return -EINVAL; - } if (first->endpoint >= ENDPOINT_MAX) { WARN_ON_ONCE(1); -- 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