spi: amlogic-spisg: drop misleading NULL check on exdesc

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aml_spisg_setup_transfer() takes a non-NULL exdesc pointer; the
function dereferences exdesc unconditionally later in the body to
populate the SPI scatter-gather descriptors (tx_ccsg / rx_ccsg).
The sole caller, aml_spisg_transfer_one_message(), always passes a
valid pointer derived from kcalloc().

The "if (exdesc)" guard around the memset() at the start of the
function is therefore dead and misleading -- it suggests callers
may pass NULL when in fact they may not. smatch flags the
inconsistency:

  drivers/spi/spi-amlogic-spisg.c:314 aml_spisg_setup_transfer()
    error: we previously assumed 'exdesc' could be null (see line 261)

Drop the check; the unconditional memset matches the unconditional
dereferences elsewhere in the function and removes the inconsistency
that smatch reports.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Stepan Ionichev <sozdayvek@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Xianwei Zhao <xianwei.zhao@amlogic.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260506183513.482-1-sozdayvek@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

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Stepan Ionichev 2026-05-06 23:35:12 +05:00 • committed by Mark Brown

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