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/YaFwDtKKYRr7qzWc@apalos.home/

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt heinrich.schuchardt@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;