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authorColin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>2019-05-10 10:58:32 +0100
committerPhilipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>2019-07-04 12:10:55 +0200
commita71dcd3757e29cc8b43383ff18595d707cf08345 (patch)
treeb214062fd64dc92d0179d6d69a6d577835b5761c /drivers/reset
parenta188339ca5a396acc588e5851ed7e19f66b0ebd9 (diff)
downloadlinux-a71dcd3757e29cc8b43383ff18595d707cf08345.tar.gz
reset: remove redundant null check on pointer dev
Pointer dev is being dereferenced when passed to the inlined
functon dev_name, however, dev is later being null checked
so at first this seems like a potential null pointer dereference.

In fact, _reset_control_get_from_lookup is only ever called from
__reset_control_get, right after checking dev->of_node hence
dev can never be null.  Clean this up by removing the redundant
null check.

Thanks to Philipp Zabel for spotting that dev can never be null.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference before null check")
Fixes: 6691dffab0ab ("reset: add support for non-DT systems")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/reset')
-rw-r--r--drivers/reset/core.c3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/reset/core.c b/drivers/reset/core.c
index 81ea77cba123..921f4bbbad8a 100644
--- a/drivers/reset/core.c
+++ b/drivers/reset/core.c
@@ -694,9 +694,6 @@ __reset_control_get_from_lookup(struct device *dev, const char *con_id,
 	const char *dev_id = dev_name(dev);
 	struct reset_control *rstc = NULL;
 
-	if (!dev)
-		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
-
 	mutex_lock(&reset_lookup_mutex);
 
 	list_for_each_entry(lookup, &reset_lookup_list, list) {