[PATCH] mei: Drop unnecessary NULL check after container_of

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Tue May 11 2021 - 00:56:47 EST


The result of container_of() operations is never NULL unless the embedded
element is the first element of the data structure, which is not the case
here. The NULL check is therefore unnecessary and misleading. Remove it.

This change was made automatically with the following Coccinelle script.

@@
type t;
identifier v;
statement s;
@@

<+...
(
t v = container_of(...);
|
v = container_of(...);
)
...
when != v
- if (\( !v \| v == NULL \) ) s
...+>

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/misc/mei/main.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
index 28937b6e7e0c..9001c45f6fc4 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
@@ -50,8 +50,6 @@ static int mei_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
int err;

dev = container_of(inode->i_cdev, struct mei_device, cdev);
- if (!dev)
- return -ENODEV;

mutex_lock(&dev->device_lock);

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2.25.1