We dereference "maskptr" unconditionally at the start of the function and also inside the call to parse_tlist() towards the end of the function. This function is called from store_val_any() and it always passes a non-NULL pointer. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-ctrl.c b/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-ctrl.c index 1b992b8..55ea914 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-ctrl.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-ctrl.c @@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ int pvr2_ctrl_sym_to_value(struct pvr2_ctrl *cptr, if (ret >= 0) { ret = pvr2_ctrl_range_check(cptr,*valptr); } - if (maskptr) *maskptr = ~0; + *maskptr = ~0; } else if (cptr->info->type == pvr2_ctl_bool) { ret = parse_token(ptr,len,valptr,boolNames, ARRAY_SIZE(boolNames)); @@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ int pvr2_ctrl_sym_to_value(struct pvr2_ctrl *cptr, } else if (ret == 0) { *valptr = (*valptr & 1) ? !0 : 0; } - if (maskptr) *maskptr = 1; + *maskptr = 1; } else if (cptr->info->type == pvr2_ctl_enum) { ret = parse_token( ptr,len,valptr, @@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ int pvr2_ctrl_sym_to_value(struct pvr2_ctrl *cptr, if (ret >= 0) { ret = pvr2_ctrl_range_check(cptr,*valptr); } - if (maskptr) *maskptr = ~0; + *maskptr = ~0; } else if (cptr->info->type == pvr2_ctl_bitmask) { ret = parse_tlist( ptr,len,maskptr,valptr, -- 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