From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/acenic.c: fix check-after-use Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:37:25 -0400 Message-ID: <46A66305.9090904@garzik.org> References: <20070723080232.GF26212@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jes@trained-monkey.org, linux-acenic@sunsite.dk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Adrian Bunk Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:59016 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754909AbXGXUhf (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:37:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070723080232.GF26212@stusta.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Adrian Bunk wrote: > The Coverity checker noted that we've already dereferenced "dev" when we > check whether it's NULL. > > Since it's impossible that "dev" is NULL at this place this patch > removes the NULL check. > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk applied