Coverity reports the following: var_compare_op: Comparing chan to null implies that chan might be null. 1234 if (chan) 1235 dmaengine_terminate_all(chan); 1236 Dereference after null check (FORWARD_NULL) var_deref_op: Dereferencing null pointer chan. 1237 dma_unmap_sg(chan->device->dev, &sport->rx_sgl, 1, DMA_FROM_DEVICE); Technically, this is correct. But lpuart_dma_rx_free() is guarded by lpuart_dma_rx_use which is only true if there is a dma channel, see lpuart_rx_dma_startup(). In any way, this looks bogus. So remove the superfluous "if (chan)" check and make coverity happy. Fixes: a092ab25fdaa ("tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: fix DMA mapping") Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c index 4cb04d8bf034..83d803729d23 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c @@ -1210,9 +1210,7 @@ static void lpuart_dma_rx_free(struct uart_port *port) struct lpuart_port, port); struct dma_chan *chan = sport->dma_rx_chan; - if (chan) - dmaengine_terminate_all(chan); - + dmaengine_terminate_all(chan); dma_unmap_sg(chan->device->dev, &sport->rx_sgl, 1, DMA_FROM_DEVICE); kfree(sport->rx_ring.buf); sport->rx_ring.tail = 0; -- 2.20.1