My static checker is complaining because we check "drv" for NULL and then we dereference it to get the next item in the list. It can't be NULL so we can remove this check. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/matrox/matroxfb_base.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/matrox/matroxfb_base.c index 11eb094396ae..f6a0b9af97a9 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/matrox/matroxfb_base.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/matrox/matroxfb_base.c @@ -2001,7 +2001,7 @@ static void matroxfb_register_device(struct matrox_fb_info* minfo) { for (drv = matroxfb_driver_l(matroxfb_driver_list.next); drv != matroxfb_driver_l(&matroxfb_driver_list); drv = matroxfb_driver_l(drv->node.next)) { - if (drv && drv->probe) { + if (drv->probe) { void *p = drv->probe(minfo); if (p) { minfo->drivers_data[i] = p; -- 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