[PATCH] [SCSI] esas2r: remove redundant NULL check on buffer

[Colin King]

From: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>

buffer is a pointer to the static char array event_buffer and
therefore can never be null, so the check is redundant. Remove it.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1077556 ("Logically Dead Code")

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_log.c | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_log.c b/drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_log.c
index a82030a..65fdf22 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_log.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_log.c
@@ -130,11 +130,6 @@ static int esas2r_log_master(const long level,
 
                spin_lock_irqsave(&event_buffer_lock, flags);
 
-               if (buffer == NULL) {
-                       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&event_buffer_lock, flags);
-                       return -1;
-               }
-
                memset(buffer, 0, buflen);
 
                /*
-- 
2.10.2