The patch titled Subject: backlight: ld9040: remove unnecessary NULL deference check has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is backlight-ld9040-remove-unnecessary-null-deference-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 *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: backlight: ld9040: remove unnecessary NULL deference check Removee unnecessary NULL deference check, because it was already checked in ld9040_probe(). Also, power_is_on is replaced with ld9040_power_is_on(). Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/video/backlight/ld9040.c | 28 +++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/video/backlight/ld9040.c~backlight-ld9040-remove-unnecessary-null-deference-check drivers/video/backlight/ld9040.c --- a/drivers/video/backlight/ld9040.c~backlight-ld9040-remove-unnecessary-null-deference-check +++ a/drivers/video/backlight/ld9040.c @@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ #define MIN_BRIGHTNESS 0 #define MAX_BRIGHTNESS 24 -#define power_is_on(pwr) ((pwr) <= FB_BLANK_NORMAL) struct ld9040 { struct device *dev; @@ -567,15 +566,17 @@ static int ld9040_ldi_disable(struct ld9 return ret; } +static int ld9040_power_is_on(int power) +{ + return power <= FB_BLANK_NORMAL; +} + static int ld9040_power_on(struct ld9040 *lcd) { int ret = 0; - struct lcd_platform_data *pd = NULL; + struct lcd_platform_data *pd; + pd = lcd->lcd_pd; - if (!pd) { - dev_err(lcd->dev, "platform data is NULL.\n"); - return -EFAULT; - } /* lcd power on */ ld9040_regulator_enable(lcd); @@ -605,14 +606,10 @@ static int ld9040_power_on(struct ld9040 static int ld9040_power_off(struct ld9040 *lcd) { - int ret = 0; - struct lcd_platform_data *pd = NULL; + int ret; + struct lcd_platform_data *pd; pd = lcd->lcd_pd; - if (!pd) { - dev_err(lcd->dev, "platform data is NULL.\n"); - return -EFAULT; - } ret = ld9040_ldi_disable(lcd); if (ret) { @@ -632,9 +629,9 @@ static int ld9040_power(struct ld9040 *l { int ret = 0; - if (power_is_on(power) && !power_is_on(lcd->power)) + if (ld9040_power_is_on(power) && !ld9040_power_is_on(lcd->power)) ret = ld9040_power_on(lcd); - else if (!power_is_on(power) && power_is_on(lcd->power)) + else if (!ld9040_power_is_on(power) && ld9040_power_is_on(lcd->power)) ret = ld9040_power_off(lcd); if (!ret) @@ -773,8 +770,9 @@ static int ld9040_probe(struct spi_devic lcd->power = FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN; ld9040_power(lcd, FB_BLANK_UNBLANK); - } else + } else { lcd->power = FB_BLANK_UNBLANK; + } dev_set_drvdata(&spi->dev, lcd); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jg1.han@xxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch backlight-add-lms501kf03-lcd-driver.patch backlight-add-lms501kf03-lcd-driver-fix.patch backlight-ld9040-use-sleep-instead-of-delay.patch backlight-ld9040-remove-unnecessary-null-deference-check.patch backlight-ld9040-replace-efault-with-einval.patch backlight-ld9040-remove-redundant-return-variables.patch backlight-ld9040-reorder-inclusions-of-linux-xxxh.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