the variable sender is dereferenced in line 190, so it is no reason to check null again in line 198.

Signed-off-by: Cong Ding dinggnu@gmail.com --- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c index 1d049be..b6b8e49 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c @@ -195,11 +195,9 @@ nouveau_fence_new(struct nouveau_channel *chan, struct nouveau_fence **pfence) return -ENOMEM; kref_init(&fence->kref);

- if (chan) { - ret = nouveau_fence_emit(fence, chan); - if (ret) - nouveau_fence_unref(&fence); - } + ret = nouveau_fence_emit(fence, chan); + if (ret) + nouveau_fence_unref(&fence);

*pfence = fence; return ret;