The patch titled dca: remove unneeded NULL check has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is dca-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: dca: remove unneeded NULL check From: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> The return here doesn't release the locks or re-enable IRQs. But as Andrew Morton points out, domain is never NULL. list_first_entry() essentially never returns NULL and also we already verified that the list is not empty. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/dca/dca-core.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/dca/dca-core.c~dca-remove-unneeded-null-check drivers/dca/dca-core.c --- a/drivers/dca/dca-core.c~dca-remove-unneeded-null-check +++ a/drivers/dca/dca-core.c @@ -110,8 +110,6 @@ static void unregister_dca_providers(voi /* at this point only one domain in the list is expected */ domain = list_first_entry(&dca_domains, struct dca_domain, node); - if (!domain) - return; list_for_each_entry_safe(dca, _dca, &domain->dca_providers, node) { list_del(&dca->node); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from error27@xxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch dca-remove-unneeded-null-check.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