drivers/misc: 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>
Cc: Thomas Sujith <sujith.thomas@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c b/drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c
index 0c0bb3093e07..80a136352408 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c
@@ -175,19 +175,17 @@ static int intel_menlow_memory_add(struct acpi_device *device)
                 goto end;
         }
 
-        if (cdev) {
-                acpi_driver_data(device) = cdev;
-                result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj,
-                                        &cdev->device.kobj, "thermal_cooling");
-                if (result)
-                        goto unregister;
-
-                result = sysfs_create_link(&cdev->device.kobj,
-                                        &device->dev.kobj, "device");
-                if (result) {
-                        sysfs_remove_link(&device->dev.kobj, "thermal_cooling");
-                        goto unregister;
-                }
+        acpi_driver_data(device) = cdev;
+        result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj,
+                                &cdev->device.kobj, "thermal_cooling");
+        if (result)
+                goto unregister;
+
+        result = sysfs_create_link(&cdev->device.kobj,
+                                &device->dev.kobj, "device");
+        if (result) {
+                sysfs_remove_link(&device->dev.kobj, "thermal_cooling");
+                goto unregister;
         }
 
  end: