>> It's pretty unlikely, but it is an actual defect. > > No it is not, those variables will never be set to NULL, > so this can never be triggered. Walk up the call chain. If the involved software developers are convinced about the validity of this pointer: How do you think about to delete the following condition check instead in the discussed function implementations? if (!ch) return; Regards, Markus -- 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
