6.5-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Cai Huoqing <cai.huoqing@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 22b6e7f3d6d51ff2716480f3d8f3098d90d69165 ] 'hwdev' is checked too late and hwdev will not be NULL, so remove the check Fixes: 2acf960e3be6 ("net: hinic: Add support for configuration of rx-vlan-filter by ethtool") Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202309112354.pikZCmyk-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/ Signed-off-by: Cai Huoqing <cai.huoqing@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_port.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_port.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_port.c index 9406237c461e0..f81a43d2cdfcd 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_port.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_port.c @@ -456,9 +456,6 @@ int hinic_set_vlan_fliter(struct hinic_dev *nic_dev, u32 en) u16 out_size = sizeof(vlan_filter); int err; - if (!hwdev) - return -EINVAL; - vlan_filter.func_idx = HINIC_HWIF_FUNC_IDX(hwif); vlan_filter.enable = en; -- 2.40.1