Local variable 'ct' is initialized by an address of field of MPT3SAS_ADAPTER structure, so it does not make sense to compare 'ct' with NULL. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. Signed-off-by: Andrey Strachuk <strochuk@xxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 93204b782a88 ("scsi: mpt3sas: Lockless access for chain buffers.") --- drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c index 9a1ae52bb621..dead0f7d4d9e 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c @@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ _base_get_chain_buffer_dma_to_chain_buffer(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc, for (index = 0; index < ioc->scsiio_depth; index++) { for (j = 0; j < ioc->chains_needed_per_io; j++) { ct = &ioc->chain_lookup[index].chains_per_smid[j]; - if (ct && ct->chain_buffer_dma == chain_buffer_dma) + if (ct->chain_buffer_dma == chain_buffer_dma) return ct->chain_buffer; } } @@ -5699,7 +5699,7 @@ _base_release_memory_pools(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc) for (j = ioc->chains_per_prp_buffer; j < ioc->chains_needed_per_io; j++) { ct = &ioc->chain_lookup[i].chains_per_smid[j]; - if (ct && ct->chain_buffer) + if (ct->chain_buffer) dma_pool_free(ioc->chain_dma_pool, ct->chain_buffer, ct->chain_buffer_dma); -- 2.25.1