The patch titled Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference in uli526x_interrupt() in drivers/net/tulip/uli526x.c has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was fix-a-potential-null-pointer-dereference-in-uli526x_interrupt.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference in uli526x_interrupt() in drivers/net/tulip/uli526x.c From: Micah Gruber <micah.gruber@xxxxxxxxx> This patch fixes an apparent potential null dereference bug where we dereference dev before a null check. This patch simply remvoes the can't-happen test for a null pointer. Signed-off-by: Micah Gruber <micah.gruber@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/tulip/uli526x.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/net/tulip/uli526x.c~fix-a-potential-null-pointer-dereference-in-uli526x_interrupt drivers/net/tulip/uli526x.c --- a/drivers/net/tulip/uli526x.c~fix-a-potential-null-pointer-dereference-in-uli526x_interrupt +++ a/drivers/net/tulip/uli526x.c @@ -664,11 +664,6 @@ static irqreturn_t uli526x_interrupt(int unsigned long ioaddr = dev->base_addr; unsigned long flags; - if (!dev) { - ULI526X_DBUG(1, "uli526x_interrupt() without DEVICE arg", 0); - return IRQ_NONE; - } - spin_lock_irqsave(&db->lock, flags); outl(0, ioaddr + DCR7); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from micah.gruber@xxxxxxxxx are git-net.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