From: Markus Elfring Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:20:15 +0200 The check for the pointer “mucse” was identified as redundant because the relevant address information was preserved according to calls of the functions “pci_set_drvdata” and “pci_get_drvdata”. Thus remove it. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. See also: Reconsidering pointer dereferences before null pointer checks (with SmPL) 2023-04-09 https://lore.kernel.org/cocci/1a11455f-ab57-dce0-1677-6beb8492a257@web.de/ https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/cocci/2023-04/msg00021.html Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring --- v3: Andrew Lunn and Julia Lawall requested an extended change description. v2: Andrew Lunn requested the removal of a null pointer check. drivers/net/ethernet/mucse/rnpgbe/rnpgbe_main.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mucse/rnpgbe/rnpgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mucse/rnpgbe/rnpgbe_main.c index 70a2b0082ba8..82a3fbfb3c0a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mucse/rnpgbe/rnpgbe_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mucse/rnpgbe/rnpgbe_main.c @@ -249,8 +249,6 @@ static void rnpgbe_rm_adapter(struct pci_dev *pdev) struct net_device *netdev; int err; - if (!mucse) - return; netdev = mucse->netdev; unregister_netdev(netdev); err = rnpgbe_send_notify(hw, false, mucse_fw_powerup); -- 2.55.0