[patch] staging: vt6656: remove an unneeded NULL check

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Fri Jan 3 20:59:41 UTC 2014


We dereference "param->u.wpa_key.key" on the next line so the check
here is inconsistent.  This is only called from iwctl_siwencodeext() and
"param->u.wpa_key.key" is a valid pointer.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6656/wpactl.c b/drivers/staging/vt6656/wpactl.c
index 003bd7c614e5..f4a8a5cb9feb 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vt6656/wpactl.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vt6656/wpactl.c
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ int wpa_set_keys(struct vnt_private *pDevice, void *ctx)
 		return ret;
 	}
 
-	if (param->u.wpa_key.key && param->u.wpa_key.key_len > sizeof(abyKey))
+	if (param->u.wpa_key.key_len > sizeof(abyKey))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	memcpy(&abyKey[0], param->u.wpa_key.key, param->u.wpa_key.key_len);


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