We can remove the check for if "state->cec_adap" is NULL. The cec_allocate_adapter() function never returns NULL and also we verified that "state->cec_adap" is an error pointer. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/tc358743.c b/drivers/media/i2c/tc358743.c index e1d8eef7055e..6bbe112be267 100644 --- a/drivers/media/i2c/tc358743.c +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/tc358743.c @@ -2122,7 +2122,7 @@ static int tc358743_probe(struct i2c_client *client, state, dev_name(&client->dev), CEC_CAP_DEFAULTS | CEC_CAP_MONITOR_ALL, CEC_MAX_LOG_ADDRS); if (IS_ERR(state->cec_adap)) { - err = state->cec_adap ? PTR_ERR(state->cec_adap) : -ENOMEM; + err = PTR_ERR(state->cec_adap); goto err_hdl; } irq_mask |= MASK_CEC_RMSK | MASK_CEC_TMSK;