From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> If session is NULL, it is not possible to access its name field. So I have split apart the printing of the error message to drop the printing of the name field in this case. 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/pppol2tp.c b/drivers/net/pppol2tp.c --- linux-2.6/drivers/net/pppol2tp.c 2008-05-09 16:46:57.000000000 +0200 +++ linuxcopy/drivers/net/pppol2tp.c 2008-05-12 15:30:52.000000000 +0200 @@ -1621,9 +1621,16 @@ out_no_ppp: end: release_sock(sk); - if (error != 0) - PRINTK(session ? session->debug : -1, PPPOL2TP_MSG_CONTROL, KERN_WARNING, - "%s: connect failed: %d\n", session->name, error); + if (error != 0) { + if (session) + PRINTK(session->debug, + PPPOL2TP_MSG_CONTROL, KERN_WARNING, + "%s: connect failed: %d\n", + session->name, error); + else + PRINTK(-1, PPPOL2TP_MSG_CONTROL, KERN_WARNING, + "connect failed: %d\n", error); + } return error; } -- 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