From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Test the value that was just allocated rather than the previously tested one. A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @r@ expression *x; expression e; identifier l; @@ if (x == NULL || ...) { ... when forall return ...; } ... when != goto l; when != x = e when != &x *x == NULL // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ax88796.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ax88796.c b/drivers/net/ax88796.c index 62d9c9c..1dd4403 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ax88796.c +++ b/drivers/net/ax88796.c @@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ static int ax_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) size = (res->end - res->start) + 1; ax->mem2 = request_mem_region(res->start, size, pdev->name); - if (ax->mem == NULL) { + if (ax->mem2 == NULL) { dev_err(&pdev->dev, "cannot reserve registers\n"); ret = -ENXIO; goto exit_mem1; -- 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