The patch titled Subject: drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721_dma.c: adjust six checks for null pointers has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is rapidio-tsi721_dma-adjust-six-checks-for-null-pointers.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/rapidio-tsi721_dma-adjust-six-checks-for-null-pointers.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/rapidio-tsi721_dma-adjust-six-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: drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721_dma.c: adjust six checks for null pointers checkpatch pointed out the following: Comparison to NULL could be written !... Thus fix the affected source code places. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c3e79a1a-891e-cb62-990f-bd99839311b9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@xxxxxxx> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721_dma.c | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721_dma.c~rapidio-tsi721_dma-adjust-six-checks-for-null-pointers drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721_dma.c --- a/drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721_dma.c~rapidio-tsi721_dma-adjust-six-checks-for-null-pointers +++ a/drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721_dma.c @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ static int tsi721_bdma_ch_free(struct ts struct tsi721_device *priv = to_tsi721(bdma_chan->dchan.device); #endif - if (bdma_chan->bd_base == NULL) + if (!bdma_chan->bd_base) return 0; /* Check if DMA channel still running */ @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ tsi721_desc_fill_init(struct tsi721_tx_d { u64 rio_addr; - if (bd_ptr == NULL) + if (!bd_ptr) return -EINVAL; /* Initialize DMA descriptor */ @@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ tsi721_desc_fill_init(struct tsi721_tx_d static int tsi721_desc_fill_end(struct tsi721_dma_desc *bd_ptr, u32 bcount, bool interrupt) { - if (bd_ptr == NULL) + if (!bd_ptr) return -EINVAL; /* Update DMA descriptor */ @@ -555,9 +555,7 @@ static void tsi721_advance_work(struct t * If there is no data transfer in progress, fetch new descriptor from * the pending queue. */ - - if (desc == NULL && bdma_chan->active_tx == NULL && - !list_empty(&bdma_chan->queue)) { + if (!desc && !bdma_chan->active_tx && !list_empty(&bdma_chan->queue)) { desc = list_first_entry(&bdma_chan->queue, struct tsi721_tx_desc, desc_node); list_del_init((&desc->desc_node)); @@ -796,7 +794,7 @@ static void tsi721_free_chan_resources(s tsi_debug(DMA, &dchan->dev->device, "DMAC%d", bdma_chan->id); - if (bdma_chan->bd_base == NULL) + if (!bdma_chan->bd_base) return; tsi721_bdma_interrupt_enable(bdma_chan, 0); _ 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 rapidio-tsi721_dma-delete-an-error-message-for-a-failed-memory-allocation-in-tsi721_alloc_chan_resources.patch rapidio-tsi721_dma-delete-an-unnecessary-variable-initialisation-in-tsi721_alloc_chan_resources.patch rapidio-tsi721_dma-adjust-six-checks-for-null-pointers.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