Neither "acceptor_values" nor "proposer_values" can be NULL here. Smatch complains because we are not allowed to pass NULL pointers to strchr(). Also I removed a second later check for "!acceptor_values" because it gets checked on the next line in the do while condition. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Compile tested only. Please review carefully. diff --git a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c index ad3b3c1..ed5241e 100644 --- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c +++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c @@ -1037,13 +1037,6 @@ static char *iscsi_check_valuelist_for_support( tmp2 = strchr(acceptor_values, ','); if (tmp2) *tmp2 = '\0'; - if (!acceptor_values || !proposer_values) { - if (tmp1) - *tmp1 = ','; - if (tmp2) - *tmp2 = ','; - return NULL; - } if (!strcmp(acceptor_values, proposer_values)) { if (tmp2) *tmp2 = ','; @@ -1053,8 +1046,6 @@ static char *iscsi_check_valuelist_for_support( *tmp2++ = ','; acceptor_values = tmp2; - if (!acceptor_values) - break; } while (acceptor_values); if (tmp1) *tmp1++ = ','; -- 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