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ACPI / event: remove unneeded NULL pointer check

nla_data() cannot return NULL as it simply adds NLA_HDRLEN to the
passed pointer. The NULL pointer check is therefore superfluous.
Remove it.

Found by smatch:
  drivers/acpi/event.c:130 acpi_bus_generate_netlink_event() warn: can
  'event' even be NULL?

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Mathias Krause 11 years ago
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      drivers/acpi/event.c

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drivers/acpi/event.c

@@ -127,11 +127,6 @@ int acpi_bus_generate_netlink_event(const char *device_class,
 	}
 
 	event = nla_data(attr);
-	if (!event) {
-		nlmsg_free(skb);
-		return -EINVAL;
-	}
-
 	memset(event, 0, sizeof(struct acpi_genl_event));
 
 	strcpy(event->device_class, device_class);