From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: remove superfluous NULL pointer checks Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:10:23 -0400 Message-ID: <4A6FA17F.20507@pobox.com> References: <200907261605.14619.bzolnier@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:59197 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752903AbZG2BK2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:10:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200907261605.14619.bzolnier@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dan Carpenter , corbet@lwn.net, eteo@redhat.com Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz > Subject: [PATCH] libata: remove superfluous NULL pointer checks > > host->ports[] always contain pointers to valid port structures since > a "dummy port" structure is used in case if there is no physical port. > > This patch takes care of two entries from Dan's list: > > drivers/ata/sata_sil.c +535 sil_interrupt(13) warning: variable derefenced before check 'ap' > drivers/ata/sata_mv.c +2517 mv_unexpected_intr(6) warning: variable derefenced before check 'ap' > > and of another needless NULL pointer check in pata_octeon_cf.c. > > Reported-by: Dan Carpenter > Cc: corbet@lwn.net > Cc: eteo@redhat.com > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz > --- > drivers/ata/pata_octeon_cf.c | 3 ++- > drivers/ata/sata_mv.c | 2 +- > drivers/ata/sata_sil.c | 2 +- > 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) applied to #upstream-fixes