The patch titled ip2: remove unneeded NULL check has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ip2-remove-unneeded-null-check.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: ip2: remove unneeded NULL check From: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> We don't pass NULL tty pointers to the close function, and anyway we already dereferenced it at this point. This check can be removed. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.c~ip2-remove-unneeded-null-check drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.c --- a/drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.c~ip2-remove-unneeded-null-check +++ a/drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.c @@ -1650,7 +1650,7 @@ ip2_close( PTTY tty, struct file *pFile /* disable DSS reporting */ i2QueueCommands(PTYPE_INLINE, pCh, 100, 4, CMD_DCD_NREP, CMD_CTS_NREP, CMD_DSR_NREP, CMD_RI_NREP); - if ( !tty || (tty->termios->c_cflag & HUPCL) ) { + if (tty->termios->c_cflag & HUPCL) { i2QueueCommands(PTYPE_INLINE, pCh, 100, 2, CMD_RTSDN, CMD_DTRDN); pCh->dataSetOut &= ~(I2_DTR | I2_RTS); i2QueueCommands( PTYPE_INLINE, pCh, 100, 1, CMD_PAUSE(25)); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from error27@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch ip2-remove-unneeded-null-check.patch ip2-return-efault-on-copy_to_user-errors.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