qedf is checked to be null in this if branch, accessing its member will cause a null pointer dereference. As suggested by Bart, fix it by deleting the logic since qedf cannot be NULL in this function. Signed-off-by: Liao Chen <liaochen4@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_main.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_main.c b/drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_main.c index cf13148ba281..df756f3eef3e 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_main.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_main.c @@ -4018,11 +4018,6 @@ void qedf_stag_change_work(struct work_struct *work) struct qedf_ctx *qedf = container_of(work, struct qedf_ctx, stag_work.work); - if (!qedf) { - QEDF_ERR(&qedf->dbg_ctx, "qedf is NULL"); - return; - } - if (test_bit(QEDF_IN_RECOVERY, &qedf->flags)) { QEDF_ERR(&qedf->dbg_ctx, "Already is in recovery, hence not calling software context reset.\n"); -- 2.34.1