The patch titled drivers/acpi/osl.c: fix a NULL check has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is drivers-acpi-oslc-fix-a-null-check.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: drivers/acpi/osl.c: fix a NULL check From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> This patch fixes a non-working NULL check introduced by commit b229cf92eee616c7cb5ad8cdb35a19b119f00bc8. Spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/osl.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/acpi/osl.c~drivers-acpi-oslc-fix-a-null-check drivers/acpi/osl.c --- a/drivers/acpi/osl.c~drivers-acpi-oslc-fix-a-null-check +++ a/drivers/acpi/osl.c @@ -1040,7 +1040,7 @@ acpi_status acpi_os_create_cache(char *name, u16 size, u16 depth, acpi_cache_t ** cache) { *cache = kmem_cache_create(name, size, 0, 0, NULL, NULL); - if (cache == NULL) + if (*cache == NULL) return AE_ERROR; else return AE_OK; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from bunk@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch drivers-rtc-rtc-rs5c372c-fix-a-null-dereference.patch make-drivers-acpi-baycdrive_bays-static.patch make-drivers-acpi-eccec_ecdt-static.patch drivers-acpi-oslc-fix-a-null-check.patch git-alsa.patch tidy-gregkh-driver-udev-compatible-hack.patch drivers-media-video-cafe_ccicc-make-a-function-static.patch git-gfs2-nmw.patch fs-dlm-lowcomms-tcpc-remove-2-functions.patch git-mtd.patch git-net.patch net-uninline-skb_put-fix.patch git-ocfs2.patch drivers-pci-hotplug-ibmphp_pcic-fix-null-dereference.patch git-scsi-misc.patch drivers-scsi-small-cleanups.patch drivers-scsi-aic7xxx-aic79xx_corec-make-ahd_match_scb-static.patch drivers-scsi-advansysc-cleanups.patch megaraid-fix-warnings-when-config_proc_fs=n.patch drivers-scsi-dpt_i2oc-remove-dead-code.patch drivers-scsi-aic7xxx-make-functions-static.patch drivers-scsi-megaraid-megaraid_sasc-make-2-functions-static.patch make-drivers-usb-host-u132-hcdcu132_hcd_wait-static.patch make-drivers-usb-input-wacom_syscwacom_sys_irq-static.patch drivers-usb-misc-ftdi-elanc-fixes-and-cleanups.patch git-cryptodev.patch make-mm-thrashcglobal_faults-static.patch acx1xx-wireless-driver.patch drivers-edac-make-code-static.patch remove-drivers-pci-searchcpci_find_device_reverse.patch ext4_ext_split-remove-dead-code.patch the-scheduled-removal-of-some-oss-options.patch make-arch-i386-pci-commoncpci_bf_sort-static.patch make-mm-shmemcshmem_xattr_security_handler-static.patch remove-kernel-lockdepclockdep_internal.patch make-kernel-signalckill_proc_info-static.patch make-ecryptfs_version_str_map-static.patch make-fs-jbd-transactionc__journal_temp_unlink_buffer-static.patch make-fs-jbd2-transactionc__jbd2_journal_temp_unlink_buffer-static.patch fs-lockd-hostc-make-2-functions-static.patch make-fs-proc-basecproc_pid_instantiate-static.patch make-ext2_get_blocks-static.patch reiser4-export-remove_from_page_cache-fix.patch fs-reiser4-possible-cleanups.patch reiser4-possible-cleanups-2.patch fs-reiser4-possible-cleanups-2.patch make-drivers-md-dm-snapcksnapd-static.patch gtod-persistent-clock-support-core-remove-kernel-timercwall_jiffies.patch gtod-persistent-clock-support-i386-i386-unexport-read_persistent_clock.patch dynticks-extend-next_timer_interrupt-to-use-a-reference-jiffie-make-kernel-timerc__next_timer_interrupt-static.patch updated-i386-convert-to-clock-event-devices-arch-i386-kernel-apicc-make-a-function-static.patch updated-i386-convert-to-clock-event-devices-remove-arch-i386-kernel-time_hpetchpet_reenable.patch slim-main-patch-security-slim-slm_mainc-make-2-functions-static.patch slab-cache-shrinker-statistics.patch debug-shared-irqs-kconfig-fix.patch i386-enable-4k-stacks-by-default.patch mutex-subsystem-synchro-test-module.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