Commit-ID: cf8178f78645148dc38b28263b9d3f604148e3a8
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/cf8178f78645148dc38b28263b9d3f604148e3a8
Author: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 17:10:10 +0000
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 12:31:58 +0100
x86/microcode/AMD: Remove redundant NULL check on mc
mc is a pointer to the static u8 array amd_ucode_patch and
therefore can never be null, so the check is redundant. Remove it.
Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1372871 ("Logically Dead Code")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: x86-ml <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c
b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c
index 7889ae4..1d38e53 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c
@@ -352,8 +352,6 @@ void reload_ucode_amd(void)
u32 rev, dummy;
mc = (struct microcode_amd *)amd_ucode_patch;
- if (!mc)
- return;
rdmsr(MSR_AMD64_PATCH_LEVEL, rev, dummy);
