A pointer has already been dereferenced before checking if it is NULL. It doesn't make any sense, so correct to avoid it.
Fixes: 4f3cfcbc3df3 ("net/iavf: support eCPRI msg type 0 for RSS") Coverity issue: 365290 Signed-off-by: Simei Su <simei...@intel.com> --- drivers/net/iavf/iavf_hash.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_hash.c b/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_hash.c index ebaac58..9901f4b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_hash.c +++ b/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_hash.c @@ -597,11 +597,13 @@ iavf_hash_parse_pattern(const struct rte_flow_item pattern[], uint64_t *phint, break; case RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_ECPRI: ecpri = item->spec; - ecpri_common.u32 = rte_be_to_cpu_32( - ecpri->hdr.common.u32); if (!ecpri) break; - else if (ecpri_common.type != + + ecpri_common.u32 = rte_be_to_cpu_32( + ecpri->hdr.common.u32); + + if (ecpri_common.type != RTE_ECPRI_MSG_TYPE_IQ_DATA) { rte_flow_error_set(error, EINVAL, RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ITEM, item, -- 2.9.5