Run your patches through checkpatch.pl. On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 07:50:26PM +0100, Rickard Strandqvist wrote: > - if (dprivate != NULL) > + if (dprivate != NULL) { This is a double negative. Just say "if (dprivate) {". Actually just reverse the test and remove the bogus printk. Say: if (!dprivate) return 0; But *actually* just remove the test entirely because it can never be NULL. Same for virtpci_driver_attr_store(). Btw, if you have the smatch cross function database set up then you can figure out this sort of thing by using: $ smdb.py virtpci_driver_attr_store It says that: fs/sysfs/file.c | sysfs_kf_write | (struct sysfs_ops)->store | PARAM_VALUE | 0 | $ | 4096-2117777777777777777 So this is called from sysfs_kf_write() and parameter zero is a valid pointer. regards, dan carpenter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel