Smatch complains that "count" is not clamped when "ff->dev_lock_changed" and it leads to an information leak. Fortunately, that's not actually possible and the condition can be deleted. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: just delet the condition sound/firewire/fireface/ff-hwdep.c | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/sound/firewire/fireface/ff-hwdep.c b/sound/firewire/fireface/ff-hwdep.c index 4b2e0dff5ddb..ea64a2a41eea 100644 --- a/sound/firewire/fireface/ff-hwdep.c +++ b/sound/firewire/fireface/ff-hwdep.c @@ -35,13 +35,11 @@ static long hwdep_read(struct snd_hwdep *hwdep, char __user *buf, long count, } memset(&event, 0, sizeof(event)); - if (ff->dev_lock_changed) { - event.lock_status.type = SNDRV_FIREWIRE_EVENT_LOCK_STATUS; - event.lock_status.status = (ff->dev_lock_count > 0); - ff->dev_lock_changed = false; + event.lock_status.type = SNDRV_FIREWIRE_EVENT_LOCK_STATUS; + event.lock_status.status = (ff->dev_lock_count > 0); + ff->dev_lock_changed = false; - count = min_t(long, count, sizeof(event.lock_status)); - } + count = min_t(long, count, sizeof(event.lock_status)); spin_unlock_irq(&ff->lock); -- 2.29.2