pDevice is never NULL when this function is called remove the check. This fixes smatch warning drivers/staging/vt6655/device_main.c:1023 device_free_info() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'pDevice' (see line 1021) Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: kbuild@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/vt6655/device_main.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6655/device_main.c b/drivers/staging/vt6655/device_main.c index f33795f..7e7d9af 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/vt6655/device_main.c +++ b/drivers/staging/vt6655/device_main.c @@ -1008,9 +1008,6 @@ static void device_free_info(struct vnt_private *pDevice) { struct net_device *dev = pDevice->dev; - if (!pDevice) - return; - ASSERT(pDevice); //2008-0714-01<Add>by chester device_release_WPADEV(pDevice); -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html