On Thu, Jul 23, 2026 at 04:18:10PM +0800, Gou Hao wrote:
> kzalloc_objs with the __GFP_NOFAIL flag will never return NULL, so the
> subsequent NULL check is unreachable dead code. Remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gou Hao <[email protected]>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> index dadd1f46ec93..79d7854259cb 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
> @@ -1134,9 +1134,6 @@ static int __init xive_init_ipis(void)
>
> xive_ipis = kzalloc_objs(*xive_ipis, nr_node_ids,
> GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
> - if (!xive_ipis)
> - goto out_free_domain;
This will be an unused label after this.
Regards,
Mukesh
> -
> for_each_node(node) {
> struct xive_ipi_desc *xid = &xive_ipis[node];
> struct xive_ipi_alloc_info info = { node };
> --
> 2.20.1
>
