diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index 94c9301e7f..1e5e9b9aeb 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -2783,7 +2783,7 @@ static void configure_accelerators(const char *progname)
 
         accel_list = g_strsplit(accel, ":", 0);
 
-        for (tmp = accel_list; tmp && *tmp; tmp++) {
+        for (tmp = accel_list; *tmp; tmp++) {
             /*
              * Filter invalid accelerators here, to prevent obscenities
              * such as "-machine accel=tcg,,thread=single".