This can't be NULL and we dereferenced it earlier. Smatch used to ignore these things where the pointer was obviously non-NULL but I've found that sometimes the intention was to check something else so we were maybe missing bugs. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/x86/crypto/sha-mb/sha1_mb.c b/arch/x86/crypto/sha-mb/sha1_mb.c index 99eefd8..a225a5ca 100644 --- a/arch/x86/crypto/sha-mb/sha1_mb.c +++ b/arch/x86/crypto/sha-mb/sha1_mb.c @@ -204,8 +204,7 @@ static struct sha1_hash_ctx *sha1_ctx_mgr_resubmit(struct sha1_ctx_mgr *mgr, str continue; } - if (ctx) - ctx->status = HASH_CTX_STS_IDLE; + ctx->status = HASH_CTX_STS_IDLE; return ctx; } -- 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