Re: [PATCH] libata: remove superfluous NULL pointer checks

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Tue Jul 28 2009 - 21:10:36 EST


Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>
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 <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: corbet@xxxxxxx
Cc: eteo@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>
---
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


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