From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> At the point of the print, dev is NULL. A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @r exists@ expression E,E1; identifier f; statement S1,S2,S3; @@ if ((E == NULL && ...) || ...) { ... when != if (...) S1 else S2 when != E = E1 * E->f ... when any return ...; } else S3 // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c b/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c index 694132e..4e7d1d0 100644 --- a/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c +++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c @@ -1151,8 +1151,7 @@ static int __init yam_init_driver(void) dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof(struct yam_port), name, yam_setup); if (!dev) { - printk(KERN_ERR "yam: cannot allocate net device %s\n", - dev->name); + pr_err("yam: cannot allocate net device\n"); err = -ENOMEM; goto 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
