The patch titled mtd/sst25l: check for null consistently has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mtd-sst25l-check-for-null-consistently.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: mtd/sst25l: check for null consistently From: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> The rest of the function assumes that "data" can be null. I don't know the code well enough to say whether it can actually be null, but there is no harm in checking here. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andre Renaud <andre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/mtd/devices/sst25l.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/mtd/devices/sst25l.c~mtd-sst25l-check-for-null-consistently drivers/mtd/devices/sst25l.c --- a/drivers/mtd/devices/sst25l.c~mtd-sst25l-check-for-null-consistently +++ a/drivers/mtd/devices/sst25l.c @@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ static int __init sst25l_probe(struct sp parts, nr_parts); } - } else if (data->nr_parts) { + } else if (data && data->nr_parts) { dev_warn(&spi->dev, "ignoring %d default partitions on %s\n", data->nr_parts, data->name); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from error27@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch mempolicy-err_ptr-dereference-in-mpol_shared_policy_init.patch linux-next.patch mtd-sst25l-check-for-null-consistently.patch scsi-remove-superfluous-null-pointer-check-from-scsi_kill_request.patch proc-cleanup-remove-unused-assignments.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