These patches find a case where there is a dereference before a NULL test and either move the dereference after the NULL test, or eliminate the NULL test if it seems unnnecessary. -- 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