ACPI / util: remove redundant check if element is NULL

element is &package->package.elements[i] which can never be NULL
so the check to see if it is NULL is redundant and can be removed.

Detected with static analysis by CoverityScan

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/utils.c b/drivers/acpi/utils.c
index f2f9873..f12a724 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/acpi/utils.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/utils.c
@@ -201,10 +201,6 @@ acpi_extract_package(union acpi_object *package,
                u8 **pointer = NULL;
                union acpi_object *element = &(package->package.elements[i]);
 
-               if (!element) {
-                       return AE_BAD_DATA;
-               }
-
                switch (element->type) {
 
                case ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER: