From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> device and acpi_driver_data(device) were tested just a few lines above. A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @r exists@ local idexpression x; expression E; @@ if (x == NULL || ...) { ... when forall return ...; } .. when != \(x=E\|x--\|x++\|--x\|++x\|x-=E\|x+=E\|x|=E\|x&=E\|&x\) ( *x == NULL | *x != NULL ) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c 2009-07-31 16:55:09.389775000 +0930 +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c 2009-07-31 17:13:01.160777027 +0930 @@ -745,9 +745,6 @@ static int acpi_fujitsu_remove(struct ac fujitsu = acpi_driver_data(device); - if (!device || !acpi_driver_data(device)) - return -EINVAL; - fujitsu->acpi_handle = NULL; return 0; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html