From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> If dev is NULL, it is not possible to access its name field. So I have simply modified the error message to drop the printing of the name field. This problem was found using the following semantic match (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @@ expression E, E1; identifier f; statement S1,S2,S3; @@ * if (E == NULL) { ... when != if (E == NULL) S1 else S2 when != E = E1 * E->f ... when any return ...; } else S3 // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- diff -u -p a/drivers/net/au1000_eth.c b/drivers/net/au1000_eth.c --- a/drivers/net/au1000_eth.c 2008-04-27 11:41:11.000000000 +0200 +++ b/drivers/net/au1000_eth.c 2008-05-12 09:32:54.000000000 +0200 @@ -1242,7 +1242,7 @@ static irqreturn_t au1000_interrupt(int struct net_device *dev = (struct net_device *) dev_id; if (dev == NULL) { - printk(KERN_ERR "%s: isr: null dev ptr\n", dev->name); + printk(KERN_ERR "isr: null dev ptr\n"); return IRQ_RETVAL(1); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html