We dereference bitmap both one line above and one line below this check rendering this check quite useless. Spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> --- linux-2.6.16-rc5-mm3-full/drivers/md/bitmap.c.old 2006-03-10 19:02:38.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.16-rc5-mm3-full/drivers/md/bitmap.c 2006-03-10 19:02:54.000000000 +0100 @@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ static void bitmap_mask_state(struct bit unsigned long flags; spin_lock_irqsave(&bitmap->lock, flags); - if (!bitmap || !bitmap->sb_page) { /* can't set the state */ + if (!bitmap->sb_page) { /* can't set the state */ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bitmap->lock, flags); return; } -- dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel