The patch titled drivers/scsi: Remove unnecessary NULL test has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is drivers-scsi-remove-unnecessary-null-test.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 *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: drivers/scsi: Remove unnecessary NULL test From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> At the point where cmnd is initialized, it is tested for NULL, so it doesn't have to be tested again here. A simplified version of the semantic match that detects this problem is as follows (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/): // <smpl> @match exists@ expression x, E; identifier fld; @@ * x->fld ... when != \(x = E\|&x\) * x == NULL // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/initio.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/scsi/initio.c~drivers-scsi-remove-unnecessary-null-test drivers/scsi/initio.c --- a/drivers/scsi/initio.c~drivers-scsi-remove-unnecessary-null-test +++ a/drivers/scsi/initio.c @@ -2817,7 +2817,6 @@ static void i91uSCBPost(u8 * host_mem, u } cmnd->result = cblk->tastat | (cblk->hastat << 16); - WARN_ON(cmnd == NULL); i91u_unmap_scb(host->pci_dev, cmnd); cmnd->scsi_done(cmnd); /* Notify system DONE */ initio_release_scb(host, cblk); /* Release SCB for current channel */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from julia@xxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch drivers-scsi-libsas-use-sam_good.patch drivers-block-dac960c-use-dac960_v2_controller.patch drivers-char-ipmi-use-kcs_idle_state.patch drivers-message-move-dereference-after-null-test.patch drivers-acpi-move-dereference-after-null-test.patch drivers-media-video-move-dereference-after-null-test.patch drivers-mmc-move-dereference-after-null-test.patch drivers-cpuidle-move-dereference-after-null-test.patch drivers-video-move-dereference-after-null-test.patch drivers-ata-libata-move-dereference-after-null-test.patch drivers-scsi-remove-unnecessary-null-test.patch arch-arm-plat-omap-drop-an-unnecessary-null-test.patch arch-arm-plat-s3c24xx-move-dereference-after-null-test.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