goto out;
 
        obj = pkg->package.elements + 1;
-       if (obj == NULL || obj->type != ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER) {
+       if (obj->type != ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER) {
                ACPI_ERROR((AE_INFO, "Invalid argument type"));
                result = -EIO;
                goto out;
        case I2C_SMBUS_BYTE:
        case I2C_SMBUS_BYTE_DATA:
        case I2C_SMBUS_WORD_DATA:
-               if (obj == NULL || obj->type != ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER) {
+               if (obj->type != ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER) {
                        ACPI_ERROR((AE_INFO, "Invalid argument type"));
                        result = -EIO;
                        goto out;
                        data->byte = obj->integer.value;
                break;
        case I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_DATA:
-               if (obj == NULL || obj->type != ACPI_TYPE_BUFFER) {
+               if (obj->type != ACPI_TYPE_BUFFER) {
                        ACPI_ERROR((AE_INFO, "Invalid argument type"));
                        result = -EIO;
                        goto out;