We dereference "buf" on the line before so if it were NULL here we would have OOPsed earlier. Also list_entry() never returns NULL. And finally, we handled the situation where the list is empty earlier in the function. So this test isn't needed and I've removed it. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/staging/tm6000/tm6000-video.c b/drivers/staging/tm6000/tm6000-video.c index 3fe6038..8d8b939 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/tm6000/tm6000-video.c +++ b/drivers/staging/tm6000/tm6000-video.c @@ -179,9 +179,6 @@ static inline void get_next_buf(struct tm6000_dmaqueue *dma_q, *buf = list_entry(dma_q->active.next, struct tm6000_buffer, vb.queue); - if (!buf) - return; - /* Cleans up buffer - Useful for testing for frame/URB loss */ outp = videobuf_to_vmalloc(&(*buf)->vb); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html