fix for a potential NULL pointer dereference and removal of a redundant
assignment operation. Found using smatch.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Amit Mehta <gmate.a...@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-traffic.c |    8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-traffic.c 
b/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-traffic.c
index 99749bd..adb05a8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-traffic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-traffic.c
@@ -611,11 +611,8 @@ __vxge_hw_vpath_alarm_process(struct __vxge_hw_virtualpath 
*vpath,
        struct vxge_hw_vpath_stats_sw_info *sw_stats;
        struct vxge_hw_vpath_reg __iomem *vp_reg;
 
-       if (vpath == NULL) {
-               alarm_event = VXGE_HW_SET_LEVEL(VXGE_HW_EVENT_UNKNOWN,
-                       alarm_event);
+       if (vpath == NULL)
                goto out2;
-       }
 
        hldev = vpath->hldev;
        vp_reg = vpath->vp_reg;
@@ -852,13 +849,12 @@ __vxge_hw_vpath_alarm_process(struct 
__vxge_hw_virtualpath *vpath,
        }
 out:
        hldev->stats.sw_dev_err_stats.vpath_alarms++;
+       __vxge_hw_device_handle_error(hldev, vpath->vp_id, alarm_event);
 out2:
        if ((alarm_event == VXGE_HW_EVENT_ALARM_CLEARED) ||
                (alarm_event == VXGE_HW_EVENT_UNKNOWN))
                return VXGE_HW_OK;
 
-       __vxge_hw_device_handle_error(hldev, vpath->vp_id, alarm_event);
-
        if (alarm_event == VXGE_HW_EVENT_SERR)
                return VXGE_HW_ERR_CRITICAL;
 
-- 
1.7.9.5

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