diff --git a/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxreg-lc.c b/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxreg-lc.c
index 1e0c3ddc46cdcd8749a6c0f6c32da4532e7698f6..1e071df4c9f5bcd90539ee804f36fd9f2a93a070 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxreg-lc.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxreg-lc.c
@@ -893,10 +893,8 @@ static int mlxreg_lc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 regcache_sync_fail:
 regmap_write_fail:
 devm_regmap_init_i2c_fail:
-	if (data->hpdev.client) {
-		i2c_unregister_device(data->hpdev.client);
-		data->hpdev.client = NULL;
-	}
+	i2c_unregister_device(data->hpdev.client);
+	data->hpdev.client = NULL;
 i2c_new_device_fail:
 	i2c_put_adapter(data->hpdev.adapter);
 	data->hpdev.adapter = NULL;