The polling functions were checking for a NULL uart_state, which is indexed from uart_driver->state. It should be always allocated and non-NULL when the tty_driver is registered, and line should not be larger than the tty_driver->num anyways. Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 16 ++++------------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c index 9939c3d9912b..6f7247114ef8 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c @@ -2330,9 +2330,6 @@ static int uart_poll_init(struct tty_driver *driver, int line, char *options) int flow = 'n'; int ret = 0; - if (!state) - return -1; - tport = &state->port; mutex_lock(&tport->mutex); @@ -2367,12 +2364,10 @@ static int uart_poll_get_char(struct tty_driver *driver, int line) struct uart_port *port; int ret = -1; - if (state) { - port = uart_port_ref(state); - if (port) { - ret = port->ops->poll_get_char(port); - uart_port_deref(port); - } + port = uart_port_ref(state); + if (port) { + ret = port->ops->poll_get_char(port); + uart_port_deref(port); } return ret; } @@ -2383,9 +2378,6 @@ static void uart_poll_put_char(struct tty_driver *driver, int line, char ch) struct uart_state *state = drv->state + line; struct uart_port *port; - if (!state) - return; - port = uart_port_ref(state); if (!port) return; -- 2.11.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html