On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 10:17 +0530, Tapasweni Pathak wrote: > Replace dev_err statement with pr_err to fix null dereference. > > Found by Coccinelle. > > Signed-off-by: Tapasweni Pathak <tapaswenipathak@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/media/i2c/s5c73m3/s5c73m3-spi.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/s5c73m3/s5c73m3-spi.c b/drivers/media/i2c/s5c73m3/s5c73m3-spi.c > index f60b265..63eb190 100644 > --- a/drivers/media/i2c/s5c73m3/s5c73m3-spi.c > +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/s5c73m3/s5c73m3-spi.c > @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ static int spi_xmit(struct spi_device *spi_dev, void *addr, const int len, > xfer.rx_buf = addr; > > if (spi_dev == NULL) { > - dev_err(&spi_dev->dev, "SPI device is uninitialized\n"); > + pr_err("SPI device is uninitialized\n"); > return -ENODEV; > } It'd be better to move this above the if (dir...) block and use ratelimit/once it too static int spi_xmit(struct spi_device *spi_dev, void *addr, const int len, enum spi_direction dir) { struct spi_message msg; int r; struct spi_transfer xfer = { .len = len, }; if (!spi_dev) { pr_err_once("SPI device is uninitialized\n"); return -ENODEV; } if (dir == SPI_DIR_TX) xfer.tx_buf = addr; else xfer.rx_buf = addr; ... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html