From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> phydev is checked to be not NULL a few lines above. A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @r exists@ local idexpression x; expression E; position p1,p2; @@ if (x@p1 == NULL || ...) { ... when forall return ...; } ... when != \(x=E\|x--\|x++\|--x\|++x\|x-=E\|x+=E\|x|=E\|x&=E\|&x\) ( x@p2 == NULL | x@p2 != NULL ) // another path to the test that is not through p1? @s exists@ local idexpression r.x; position r.p1,r.p2; @@ ... when != x@p1 ( x@p2 == NULL | x@p2 != NULL ) @fix depends on !s@ position r.p1,r.p2; expression x,E; statement S1,S2; @@ ( - if ((x@p2 != NULL) || ...) S1 | - if ((x@p2 == NULL) && ...) S1 | - BUG_ON(x@p2 == NULL); ) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/au1000_eth.c | 1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/au1000_eth.c b/drivers/net/au1000_eth.c index ecc2573..9c875bb 100644 --- a/drivers/net/au1000_eth.c +++ b/drivers/net/au1000_eth.c @@ -353,7 +353,6 @@ static int mii_probe (struct net_device *dev) } /* now we are supposed to have a proper phydev, to attach to... */ - BUG_ON(!phydev); BUG_ON(phydev->attached_dev); phydev = phy_connect(dev, phydev->dev.bus_id, &au1000_adjust_link, 0, -- 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