The patch titled Subject: rapidio: adjust 12 checks for null pointers has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is rapidio-adjust-12-checks-for-null-pointers.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/rapidio-adjust-12-checks-for-null-pointers.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/rapidio-adjust-12-checks-for-null-pointers.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: rapidio: adjust 12 checks for null pointers checkpatch pointed information out like the following. Comparison to NULL could be written ... Thus fix the affected source code places. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/739f9f1c-3ebe-c21b-c5e2-31976cfbc0ee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@xxxxxxx> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rapidio/rio.c | 18 +++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/rapidio/rio.c~rapidio-adjust-12-checks-for-null-pointers drivers/rapidio/rio.c --- a/drivers/rapidio/rio.c~rapidio-adjust-12-checks-for-null-pointers +++ a/drivers/rapidio/rio.c @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ int rio_request_inb_mbox(struct rio_mpor int rc = -ENOSYS; struct resource *res; - if (mport->ops->open_inb_mbox == NULL) + if (!mport->ops->open_inb_mbox) goto out; res = kzalloc(sizeof(struct resource), GFP_KERNEL); @@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ int rio_request_outb_mbox(struct rio_mpo int rc = -ENOSYS; struct resource *res; - if (mport->ops->open_outb_mbox == NULL) + if (!mport->ops->open_outb_mbox) goto out; res = kzalloc(sizeof(struct resource), GFP_KERNEL); @@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ int rio_request_inb_pwrite(struct rio_de int rc = 0; spin_lock(&rio_global_list_lock); - if (rdev->pwcback != NULL) + if (rdev->pwcback) rc = -ENOMEM; else rdev->pwcback = pwcback; @@ -975,7 +975,7 @@ rio_chk_dev_route(struct rio_dev *rdev, rdev = rdev->prev; } - if (prev == NULL) + if (!prev) goto err_out; p_port = prev->rswitch->route_table[rdev->destid]; @@ -1054,7 +1054,7 @@ rio_get_input_status(struct rio_dev *rde RIO_MNT_REQ_CMD_IS); /* Exit if the response is not expected */ - if (lnkresp == NULL) + if (!lnkresp) return 0; checkcount = 3; @@ -1696,7 +1696,7 @@ int rio_route_add_entry(struct rio_dev * spin_lock(&rdev->rswitch->lock); - if (ops == NULL || ops->add_entry == NULL) { + if (!ops || !ops->add_entry) { rc = rio_std_route_add_entry(rdev->net->hport, rdev->destid, rdev->hopcount, table, route_destid, route_port); @@ -1749,7 +1749,7 @@ int rio_route_get_entry(struct rio_dev * spin_lock(&rdev->rswitch->lock); - if (ops == NULL || ops->get_entry == NULL) { + if (!ops || !ops->get_entry) { rc = rio_std_route_get_entry(rdev->net->hport, rdev->destid, rdev->hopcount, table, route_destid, route_port); @@ -1797,7 +1797,7 @@ int rio_route_clr_table(struct rio_dev * spin_lock(&rdev->rswitch->lock); - if (ops == NULL || ops->clr_table == NULL) { + if (!ops || !ops->clr_table) { rc = rio_std_route_clr_table(rdev->net->hport, rdev->destid, rdev->hopcount, table); } else if (try_module_get(ops->owner)) { @@ -1889,7 +1889,7 @@ struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *rio_dma_ { struct rio_dma_ext rio_ext; - if (dchan->device->device_prep_slave_sg == NULL) { + if (!dchan->device->device_prep_slave_sg) { pr_err("%s: prep_rio_sg == NULL\n", __func__); return NULL; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are rapidio-delete-an-error-message-for-a-failed-memory-allocation-in-rio_init_mports.patch rapidio-adjust-12-checks-for-null-pointers.patch rapidio-adjust-five-function-calls-together-with-a-variable-assignment.patch rapidio-improve-a-size-determination-in-five-functions.patch rapidio-delete-an-unnecessary-variable-initialisation-in-three-functions.patch rapidio-return-an-error-code-only-as-a-constant-in-two-functions.patch rapidio-move-12-export_symbol_gpl-calls-to-function-implementations.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html