From: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 21:55:45 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: brcm80211: fmac: remove unnecessary NULL pointer check
X-Git-Tag: v3.4-rc1~177^2~108^2~159
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3bc7e29c984ffda0b6133c2b34233023ff36f370;p=karo-tx-linux.git

brcm80211: fmac: remove unnecessary NULL pointer check

In brcmf_usb_up() the variable devinfo was checked for being
a NULL pointer, but this can not happen. Also the check was done
after dereferencing the pointer. This patch removes the check.

Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Kan Yan <kanyan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
---

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/usb.c
index d4a9e8e7deb3..8616961a066e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/usb.c
@@ -712,9 +712,6 @@ static int brcmf_usb_up(struct device *dev)
 	struct brcmf_usbdev_info *devinfo = brcmf_usb_get_businfo(dev);
 	u16 ifnum;
 
-	if (devinfo == NULL)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	if (devinfo->bus_pub.state == BCMFMAC_USB_STATE_UP)
 		return 0;