diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i2c/tda998x_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i2c/tda998x_drv.c
index cd3f0873bbddabe41845bf08d3fde399c09290f6..9e67a7b4e3a4a01fcfc2fff7d0737a018783ed0e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i2c/tda998x_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i2c/tda998x_drv.c
@@ -1600,8 +1600,7 @@ static int tda998x_create(struct i2c_client *client, struct tda998x_priv *priv)
 	/* if encoder_init fails, the encoder slave is never registered,
 	 * so cleanup here:
 	 */
-	if (priv->cec)
-		i2c_unregister_device(priv->cec);
+	i2c_unregister_device(priv->cec);
 	return -ENXIO;
 }