If "p" is NULL then it will cause an oops when we pass it to simple_strtoul(). In this case "p" can not be NULL so I removed the check and cleaned up the rest of the if condition as well. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example_explicit.c b/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example_explicit.c index d428cc9..63ff248 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example_explicit.c +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example_explicit.c @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ static ssize_t childless_storeme_write(struct childless *childless, char *p = (char *) page; tmp = simple_strtoul(p, &p, 10); - if (!p || (*p && (*p != '\n'))) + if (*p != '\0' && *p != '\n') return -EINVAL; if (tmp > INT_MAX) -- 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