ACPI: drivers/acpi: elide a non-zero test on a result that is never 0

The function thermal_cooling_device_register always returns either a valid
pointer or a value made with ERR_PTR, so a test for non-zero on the result
will always succeed.

The problem was found using the following semantic match.
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

//<smpl>
@a@
expression E, E1;
statement S,S1;
position p;
@@

E = thermal_cooling_device_register(...)
... when != E = E1
if@p (E) S else S1

@n@
position a.p;
expression E,E1;
statement S,S1;
@@

E = NULL
... when != E = E1
if@p (E) S else S1

@depends on !n@
expression E;
statement S,S1;
position a.p;
@@

* if@p (E)
  S else S1
//</smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c
index 12fb44f16766..fe09b57de617 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/video.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c
@@ -734,21 +734,19 @@ static void acpi_video_device_find_cap(struct acpi_video_device *device)
                 if (IS_ERR(device->cdev))
                         return;
 
-                if (device->cdev) {
-                        printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX
-                                "%s is registered as cooling_device%d\n",
-                                device->dev->dev.bus_id, device->cdev->id);
-                        result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev->dev.kobj,
-                                          &device->cdev->device.kobj,
-                                          "thermal_cooling");
-                        if (result)
-                                printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "Create sysfs link\n");
-                        result = sysfs_create_link(&device->cdev->device.kobj,
-                                          &device->dev->dev.kobj,
-                                          "device");
-                        if (result)
-                                printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "Create sysfs link\n");
-                }
+                printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX
+                        "%s is registered as cooling_device%d\n",
+                        device->dev->dev.bus_id, device->cdev->id);
+                result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev->dev.kobj,
+                                  &device->cdev->device.kobj,
+                                  "thermal_cooling");
+                if (result)
+                        printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "Create sysfs link\n");
+                result = sysfs_create_link(&device->cdev->device.kobj,
+                                  &device->dev->dev.kobj,
+                                  "device");
+                if (result)
+                        printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "Create sysfs link\n");
         }
         if (device->cap._DCS && device->cap._DSS){
                 static int count = 0;