<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 5:07 AM Evgeny Sokolov <<a href="mailto:Evgeny.Sokolov@infotecs.ru">Evgeny.Sokolov@infotecs.ru</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">From: Sokolov Evgeny <<a href="mailto:Evgeny.Sokolov@infotecs.ru" target="_blank">Evgeny.Sokolov@infotecs.ru</a>><br>
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Since commit 51fafb89a9a ("net/bnxt: get rid of ff pools and use<br>
VNIC info array"), VNIC objects are obtained from the VNIC info<br>
array.<br>
<br>
The address of an array element cannot be NULL, making the NULL<br>
check redundant.<br>
<br>
Remove the dead code.<br>
<br>
Found by InfoTeCS on behalf of Linux Verification Center (<a href="http://linuxtesting.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">linuxtesting.org</a>) with SVACE.<br>
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Signed-off-by: Sokolov Evgeny <<a href="mailto:Evgeny.Sokolov@infotecs.ru" target="_blank">Evgeny.Sokolov@infotecs.ru</a>><br>
---<br>
drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_rxq.c | 5 -----<br>
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)<br>
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diff --git a/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_rxq.c b/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_rxq.c<br>
index 023cb0e174..b7e16c8a14 100644<br>
--- a/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_rxq.c<br>
+++ b/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_rxq.c<br>
@@ -131,11 +131,6 @@ int bnxt_mq_rx_configure(struct bnxt *bp)<br>
<br>
for (i = 0; i < pools; i++) {<br>
vnic = &bp->vnic_info[i];<br>
- if (!vnic) {<br>
- PMD_DRV_LOG_LINE(ERR, "VNIC alloc failed");<br>
- rc = -ENOMEM;<br>
- goto err_out;<br>
- }<br>
vnic->flags |= BNXT_VNIC_INFO_BCAST;<br>
bp->nr_vnics++;<br>
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--</blockquote><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent">Acked-by: Kishore
Padmanabha <<a href="mailto:kishore.padmanabha@broadcom.com">kishore.padmanabha@broadcom.com</a>></span> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <br>
2.30.2<br>
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