Smatch outputs the following warning: CHECK drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_BAProc.c drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_BAProc.c +88 rtllib_ADDBA(12) warn: variable dereferenced before check 'ieee' As ieee cannot be NULL at this point, remove all such checks. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- V2 - changed NULL checking --- drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_BAProc.c | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_BAProc.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_BAProc.c index 7c06024..95b7859 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_BAProc.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_BAProc.c @@ -82,12 +82,12 @@ static struct sk_buff *rtllib_ADDBA(struct rtllib_device *ieee, u8 *Dst, u8 *tag = NULL; u16 tmp = 0; u16 len = ieee->tx_headroom + 9; + RTLLIB_DEBUG(RTLLIB_DL_TRACE | RTLLIB_DL_BA, "========>%s(), frame(%d)" " sentd to: %pM, ieee->dev:%p\n", __func__, type, Dst, ieee->dev); - if (pBA == NULL || ieee == NULL) { - RTLLIB_DEBUG(RTLLIB_DL_ERR, "pBA(%p) is NULL or ieee(%p) is " - "NULL\n", pBA, ieee); + if (pBA == NULL) { + RTLLIB_DEBUG(RTLLIB_DL_ERR, "pBA(%p) is NULL\n"); return NULL; } skb = dev_alloc_skb(len + sizeof(struct rtllib_hdr_3addr)); -- 1.7.6.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel