This is always called with a valid "sg" pointer. My static checker complains because the call to sg_init_table() dereferences "sg" before we reach the checks. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c index a7b0c2d..d5c25db 100644 --- a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c @@ -301,17 +301,14 @@ int virt_to_scatterlist(const void *addr, int size, struct scatterlist *sg, while (size > 0 && i < sg_size) { pg = virt_to_page(addr); offset = offset_in_page(addr); - if (sg) - sg_set_page(&sg[i], pg, 0, offset); + sg_set_page(&sg[i], pg, 0, offset); remainder_of_page = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - offset; if (size >= remainder_of_page) { - if (sg) - sg[i].length = remainder_of_page; + sg[i].length = remainder_of_page; addr += remainder_of_page; size -= remainder_of_page; } else { - if (sg) - sg[i].length = size; + sg[i].length = size; addr += size; size = 0; } -- 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