The result of container_of() operations is never NULL unless the embedded element is the first element of the structure. This is not the case here. The NULL check is therefore unnecessary and misleading. Remove it. This change was made automatically with the following Coccinelle script. @@ type t; identifier v; statement s; @@ <+... ( t v = container_of(...); | v = container_of(...); ) ... when != v - if (\( !v \| v == NULL \) ) s ...+> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/test-drivers/vim2m.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/test-drivers/vim2m.c b/drivers/media/test-drivers/vim2m.c index a24624353f9e..d714fe50afe5 100644 --- a/drivers/media/test-drivers/vim2m.c +++ b/drivers/media/test-drivers/vim2m.c @@ -624,11 +624,6 @@ static void device_work(struct work_struct *w) curr_ctx = container_of(w, struct vim2m_ctx, work_run.work); - if (!curr_ctx) { - pr_err("Instance released before the end of transaction\n"); - return; - } - vim2m_dev = curr_ctx->dev; src_vb = v4l2_m2m_src_buf_remove(curr_ctx->fh.m2m_ctx); -- 2.25.1