The patch titled arch/arm/plat-omap: Drop an unnecessary NULL test has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is arch-arm-plat-omap-drop-an-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: arch/arm/plat-omap: Drop an unnecessary NULL test From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> map_iovm_area is only called from a context where its second argument is known not to be NULL, so drop the unnecessary test. If new could be NULL, the initialization of da should be moved below the test. 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: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hiroshi DOYU <Hiroshi.DOYU@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/plat-omap/iovmm.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN arch/arm/plat-omap/iovmm.c~arch-arm-plat-omap-drop-an-unnecessary-null-test arch/arm/plat-omap/iovmm.c --- a/arch/arm/plat-omap/iovmm.c~arch-arm-plat-omap-drop-an-unnecessary-null-test +++ a/arch/arm/plat-omap/iovmm.c @@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ static int map_iovm_area(struct iommu *o struct scatterlist *sg; u32 da = new->da_start; - if (!obj || !new || !sgt) + if (!obj || !sgt) return -EINVAL; BUG_ON(!sgtable_ok(sgt)); _ 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