From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Currently when pointer scp is null a dev_err is being called that references the pointer which is the very thing we are trying to avoid doing. Remove the extraneous error message to avoid this issue. Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference after null check") Fixes: 63c13d61eafe ("remoteproc/mediatek: add SCP support for mt8183") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/remoteproc/mtk_scp_ipi.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/mtk_scp_ipi.c b/drivers/remoteproc/mtk_scp_ipi.c index 3d3d87210ef2..58d1d7e571d6 100644 --- a/drivers/remoteproc/mtk_scp_ipi.c +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/mtk_scp_ipi.c @@ -30,10 +30,8 @@ int scp_ipi_register(struct mtk_scp *scp, scp_ipi_handler_t handler, void *priv) { - if (!scp) { - dev_err(scp->dev, "scp device is not ready\n"); + if (!scp) return -EPROBE_DEFER; - } if (WARN_ON(id >= SCP_IPI_MAX) || WARN_ON(handler == NULL)) return -EINVAL; -- 2.27.0