The patch titled drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c: move a dereference below a NULL test has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was drivers-net-hamradio-6packc-move-a-dereference-below-a-null-test.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c: move a dereference below a NULL test From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> In each case, if the NULL test is necessary, then the dereference should be moved below the NULL test. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @@ type T; expression E; identifier i,fld; statement S; @@ - T i = E->fld; + T i; ... when != E when != i if (E == NULL) S + i = E->fld; // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c~drivers-net-hamradio-6packc-move-a-dereference-below-a-null-test drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c --- a/drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c~drivers-net-hamradio-6packc-move-a-dereference-below-a-null-test +++ a/drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c @@ -717,11 +717,12 @@ static int sixpack_ioctl(struct tty_stru unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) { struct sixpack *sp = sp_get(tty); - struct net_device *dev = sp->dev; + struct net_device *dev; unsigned int tmp, err; if (!sp) return -ENXIO; + dev = sp->dev; switch(cmd) { case SIOCGIFNAME: _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from julia@xxxxxxx are linux-next.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