Smatch complains that the call to snd_soc_component_get_drvdata(component)
will dereference "component" so this NULL check is too late.  The probe()
function will never be called with a NULL component pointer so just
delete the check.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
---
 sound/soc/mediatek/mt8189/mt8189-afe-pcm.c | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/soc/mediatek/mt8189/mt8189-afe-pcm.c b/sound/soc/mediatek/mt8189/mt8189-afe-pcm.c
index dcee8e11eca8..166ece74270e 100644
--- a/sound/soc/mediatek/mt8189/mt8189-afe-pcm.c
+++ b/sound/soc/mediatek/mt8189/mt8189-afe-pcm.c
@@ -2352,12 +2352,10 @@ static int mt8189_afe_component_probe(struct snd_soc_component *component)
 {
 	struct mtk_base_afe *afe = snd_soc_component_get_drvdata(component);
 
-	if (component) {
-		/* enable clock for regcache get default value from hw */
-		pm_runtime_get_sync(afe->dev);
-		mtk_afe_add_sub_dai_control(component);
-		pm_runtime_put_sync(afe->dev);
-	}
+	/* enable clock for regcache get default value from hw */
+	pm_runtime_get_sync(afe->dev);
+	mtk_afe_add_sub_dai_control(component);
+	pm_runtime_put_sync(afe->dev);
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.51.0

On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:52:26 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Smatch complains that the call to snd_soc_component_get_drvdata(component)
> will dereference "component" so this NULL check is too late.  The probe()
> function will never be called with a NULL component pointer so just
> delete the check.
> 
> 

Applied to

   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound.git for-next

Thanks!

[1/1] ASoC: mediatek: mt8189: remove unnecessary NULL check
      commit: 9d3fcd0ebe91c2079b4aeaffc7493a0bb2ad45f2

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