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authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>2014-12-11 19:59:38 +0000
committerJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>2014-12-16 18:05:20 +1100
commit5057975ae38452679b964f1382c5efcb9faee74e (patch)
tree7fcc2d43a583e598ccdd94db4171407dbbab19b6 /security
parentd0bffab0439fb7edaee09677b636eef5991e8b80 (diff)
downloadlinux-5057975ae38452679b964f1382c5efcb9faee74e.tar.gz
KEYS: remove a bogus NULL check
We already checked if "desc" was NULL at the beginning of the function
and we've dereferenced it so this causes a static checker warning.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
-rw-r--r--security/keys/key.c10
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/security/keys/key.c b/security/keys/key.c
index e17ba6aefdc0..aee2ec5a18fc 100644
--- a/security/keys/key.c
+++ b/security/keys/key.c
@@ -276,12 +276,10 @@ struct key *key_alloc(struct key_type *type, const char *desc,
 	if (!key)
 		goto no_memory_2;
 
-	if (desc) {
-		key->index_key.desc_len = desclen;
-		key->index_key.description = kmemdup(desc, desclen + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!key->description)
-			goto no_memory_3;
-	}
+	key->index_key.desc_len = desclen;
+	key->index_key.description = kmemdup(desc, desclen + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!key->description)
+		goto no_memory_3;
 
 	atomic_set(&key->usage, 1);
 	init_rwsem(&key->sem);