The Coverity checker spotted this bug (note the ap dereference) <-- snip --> ... if (ap) { ... } else { VPRINTK("port %u (no irq)\n", i); if (ata_ratelimit()) { struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(ap->host_set->dev); ... <-- snip --> cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html