From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> It does not seem possible that ldev can be NULL, so drop the unnecessary test. If ldev can somehow be NULL, then the initialization of last_idx should be moved below the test. A simplified version of the semantic match that detects this problem is as follows (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/): // <smpl> @match exists@ expression x, E; identifier fld; @@ * x->fld ... when != \(x = E\|&x\) * x == NULL // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c | 3 --- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c index a4bec3f..1c1ceb4 100644 --- a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c @@ -69,9 +69,6 @@ static int ladder_select_state(struct cpuidle_device *dev) int last_residency, last_idx = ldev->last_state_idx; int latency_req = pm_qos_requirement(PM_QOS_CPU_DMA_LATENCY); - if (unlikely(!ldev)) - return 0; - /* Special case when user has set very strict latency requirement */ if (unlikely(latency_req == 0)) { ladder_do_selection(ldev, last_idx, 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