The driver core only calls a bus' remove function when there is actually a driver and a device. So drop the needless check and assign cldrv earlier.
(Side note: The check for cldev being non-NULL is broken anyhow, because to_mei_cl_device() is a wrapper around container_of() for a member that is not the first one. So cldev only can become NULL if dev is (void *)0xc (for archs with 32 bit pointers) or (void *)0x18 (for archs with 64 bit pointers).) Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u...@kleine-koenig.org> --- drivers/misc/mei/bus.c | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/bus.c b/drivers/misc/mei/bus.c index 2907db260fba..50d617e7467e 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/mei/bus.c +++ b/drivers/misc/mei/bus.c @@ -878,13 +878,9 @@ static int mei_cl_device_probe(struct device *dev) static int mei_cl_device_remove(struct device *dev) { struct mei_cl_device *cldev = to_mei_cl_device(dev); - struct mei_cl_driver *cldrv; + struct mei_cl_driver *cldrv = to_mei_cl_driver(dev->driver); int ret = 0; - if (!cldev || !dev->driver) - return 0; - - cldrv = to_mei_cl_driver(dev->driver); if (cldrv->remove) ret = cldrv->remove(cldev); base-commit: 5c8fe583cce542aa0b84adc939ce85293de36e5e -- 2.29.2