Deduplicate conditional and assignment in fwnode_create_software_node(), i.e. parent is checked in two out of three cases and parent software node is assigned by to_swnode() call. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: no changes drivers/base/swnode.c | 17 ++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/swnode.c b/drivers/base/swnode.c index 19aa44bc2628..db982859171e 100644 --- a/drivers/base/swnode.c +++ b/drivers/base/swnode.c @@ -973,15 +973,14 @@ fwnode_create_software_node(const struct property_entry *properties, { struct fwnode_handle *fwnode; struct software_node *node; - struct swnode *p = NULL; - - if (parent) { - if (IS_ERR(parent)) - return ERR_CAST(parent); - if (!is_software_node(parent)) - return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); - p = to_swnode(parent); - } + struct swnode *p; + + if (IS_ERR(parent)) + return ERR_CAST(parent); + + p = to_swnode(parent); + if (parent && !p) + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); node = software_node_alloc(properties); if (IS_ERR(node)) -- 2.30.2