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, 16 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/fan.c b/drivers/acpi/fan.c
index c8e3cba423ef..4d535c50d821 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/fan.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/fan.c
@@ -260,24 +260,22 @@ static int acpi_fan_add(struct acpi_device *device)
 		result = PTR_ERR(cdev);
 		goto end;
 	}
-	if (cdev) {
-		printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX
-			"%s is registered as cooling_device%d\n",
-			device->dev.bus_id, cdev->id);
-
-		acpi_driver_data(device) = cdev;
-		result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj,
-					   &cdev->device.kobj,
-					   "thermal_cooling");
-		if (result)
-			return result;
-
-		result = sysfs_create_link(&cdev->device.kobj,
-					   &device->dev.kobj,
-					   "device");
-		if (result)
-			return result;
-	}
+	printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX
+		"%s is registered as cooling_device%d\n",
+		device->dev.bus_id, cdev->id);
+
+	acpi_driver_data(device) = cdev;
+	result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj,
+				   &cdev->device.kobj,
+				   "thermal_cooling");
+	if (result)
+		return result;
+
+	result = sysfs_create_link(&cdev->device.kobj,
+				   &device->dev.kobj,
+				   "device");
+	if (result)
+		return result;
 
 	result = acpi_fan_add_fs(device);
 	if (result)