[PATCH 02/23] crypto/octeontx: remove check on driver in remove

David Marchand david.marchand at redhat.com
Wed Apr 29 13:44:35 CEST 2026


The driver reference in the bus-specific device cannot be NULL since
calling the .remove is done after dereferencing this pointer.

Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/crypto/octeontx/otx_cryptodev.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/octeontx/otx_cryptodev.c b/drivers/crypto/octeontx/otx_cryptodev.c
index b5ab937c3a..b2f6f53ee3 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/octeontx/otx_cryptodev.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/octeontx/otx_cryptodev.c
@@ -87,9 +87,6 @@ otx_cpt_pci_remove(struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev)
 	if (cryptodev == NULL)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
-	if (pci_dev->driver == NULL)
-		return -ENODEV;
-
 	dev_priv = cryptodev->data->dev_private;
 
 	/* free crypto device */
-- 
2.53.0



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