From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> If the NULL test on block is needed, it should be before the dereference of the base field. The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @r@ expression E1,E2; identifier fld; statement S1,S2; @@ E1 = E2->fld; ( if (E1 == NULL) S1 else S2 | *if (E2 == NULL) S1 else S2 ) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/s390/block/dasd.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/s390/block/dasd.c b/drivers/s390/block/dasd.c index 001af66..e109da4 100644 --- a/drivers/s390/block/dasd.c +++ b/drivers/s390/block/dasd.c @@ -2133,9 +2133,9 @@ static int dasd_getgeo(struct block_device *bdev, struct hd_geometry *geo) struct dasd_device *base; block = bdev->bd_disk->private_data; - base = block->base; if (!block) return -ENODEV; + base = block->base; if (!base->discipline || !base->discipline->fill_geometry) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html