Re: [PATCH] ipmi_ssif: remove redundant null check on array client->adapter->name

From: Corey Minyard
Date: Mon May 08 2017 - 11:19:07 EST


On 05/07/2017 01:05 PM, Colin King wrote:
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The null check on client->adapter->name is redundant as name is an
array of I2C_NAME_SIZE chars and hence can never be null. We may as
well remove this redundant check.
Thanks Colin,

Queued for next merge window.

-corey
Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1375918 ("Array compared against 0")

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
index 0b22a9be5029..d9243c5d2647 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
@@ -1417,8 +1417,7 @@ static int find_slave_address(struct i2c_client *client, int slave_addr)
list_for_each_entry(info, &ssif_infos, link) {
if (info->binfo.addr != client->addr)
continue;
- if (info->adapter_name && client->adapter->name &&
- strcmp_nospace(info->adapter_name,
+ if (info->adapter_name && strcmp_nospace(info->adapter_name,
client->adapter->name))
continue;
if (info->slave_addr) {