It will never get a NULL page by pte_page(), thus remove the redundant page validation to fix below Smatch static checker warning. mm/damon/vaddr.c:405 damon_hugetlb_mkold() warn: 'page' can't be NULL. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/damon/vaddr.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/damon/vaddr.c b/mm/damon/vaddr.c index 89b6468d..8a52e00 100644 --- a/mm/damon/vaddr.c +++ b/mm/damon/vaddr.c @@ -402,9 +402,6 @@ static void damon_hugetlb_mkold(pte_t *pte, struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t entry = huge_ptep_get(pte); struct page *page = pte_page(entry); - if (!page) - return; - get_page(page); if (pte_young(entry)) { @@ -564,9 +561,6 @@ static int damon_young_hugetlb_entry(pte_t *pte, unsigned long hmask, goto out; page = pte_page(entry); - if (!page) - goto out; - get_page(page); if (pte_young(entry) || !page_is_idle(page) || -- 1.8.3.1