Checking if variable chip is NULL after dereferencing it makes no sense.
As discribed in [1] it is not expected that the variable can ever be NULL.
[1] Re: [PATCH] tpm: avoid NULL pointer dereference in tpm_tis_send()
https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/yafwdtkkyrr7q...@apalos.home/
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schucha...@canonical.com>
---
drivers/tpm/tpm2_tis_core.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tpm/tpm2_tis_core.c b/drivers/tpm/tpm2_tis_core.c
index 985a816219..81b9210056 100644
--- a/drivers/tpm/tpm2_tis_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tpm/tpm2_tis_core.c
@@ -224,9 +224,6 @@ int tpm_tis_send(struct udevice *dev, const u8 *buf, size_t
len)
u8 status;
int ret;
- if (!chip)
- return -ENODEV;
-
ret = tpm_tis_request_locality(dev, 0);
if (ret < 0)
return -EBUSY;
--
2.40.1
