diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/common/fifo/runlist.c b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/common/fifo/runlist.c
index 9988dd156..cfb177cec 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/common/fifo/runlist.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/common/fifo/runlist.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2011-2019, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2011-2020, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
  *
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
  * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
@@ -648,8 +648,7 @@ void nvgpu_runlist_cleanup_sw(struct gk20a *g)
 	u32 i, j;
 	struct nvgpu_runlist_info *runlist;
 
-	if ((f == NULL) || (f->runlist_info == NULL) ||
-					(f->active_runlist_info == NULL)) {
+	if ((f->runlist_info == NULL) || (f->active_runlist_info == NULL)) {
 		return;
 	}