From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Subject: [patch] ACPI: remove a pointless NULL check
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:56:56 +0300
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"element" can't be NULL because it is the address of a struct member.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/utils.c b/drivers/acpi/utils.c
index 492cf4f409fd..94dbbcb5827b 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/utils.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/utils.c
@@ -98,10 +98,6 @@ acpi_extract_package(union acpi_object *package,
 
 		union acpi_object *element = &(package->package.elements[i]);
 
-		if (!element) {
-			return AE_BAD_DATA;
-		}
-
 		switch (element->type) {
 
 		case ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER: