On Sat, 11 Jul 2009, Jiri Slaby wrote: > On 07/11/2009 12:17 PM, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 10:17 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > >> On 07/11/2009 09:51 AM, Julia Lawall wrote: > >>> --- a/drivers/staging/otus/wwrap.c > >>> +++ b/drivers/staging/otus/wwrap.c > >>> @@ -1016,12 +1016,13 @@ void kevent(struct work_struct *work) > >>> { > >>> struct usbdrv_private *macp = > >>> container_of(work, struct usbdrv_private, kevent); > >>> - zdev_t *dev = macp->device; > >>> + zdev_t *dev; > >>> > >>> if (macp == NULL) > >>> { > >>> return; > >>> } > >> > >> The test is rather useless here. > >> > > > > Why useless, it should be non-null before setting to dev. > > Even if work was NULL, macp won't be NULL. work could be a small negative number such that calling container_of would return 0. julia -- 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