This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: pvrusb2: remove redundant NULL check to the 6.6-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: media-pvrusb2-remove-redundant-null-check.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit ac5723243a17811fbfd6a52c90c2de20581b7971 Author: Daniil Dulov <d.dulov@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Feb 11 07:07:25 2024 -0800 media: pvrusb2: remove redundant NULL check [ Upstream commit 95ac1210fb2753f968ebce0730d4fbc553c2a3dc ] Pointer dip->stream cannot be NULL due to a shift, thus remove redundant NULL check. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. Fixes: c74e0062684b ("V4L/DVB (5059): Pvrusb2: Be smarter about mode restoration") Signed-off-by: Daniil Dulov <d.dulov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-v4l2.c b/drivers/media/usb/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-v4l2.c index c04ab7258d645..d195bd6a2248b 100644 --- a/drivers/media/usb/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-v4l2.c +++ b/drivers/media/usb/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-v4l2.c @@ -1198,11 +1198,6 @@ static void pvr2_v4l2_dev_init(struct pvr2_v4l2_dev *dip, dip->minor_type = pvr2_v4l_type_video; nr_ptr = video_nr; caps |= V4L2_CAP_VIDEO_CAPTURE | V4L2_CAP_AUDIO; - if (!dip->stream) { - pr_err(KBUILD_MODNAME - ": Failed to set up pvrusb2 v4l video dev due to missing stream instance\n"); - return; - } break; case VFL_TYPE_VBI: dip->config = pvr2_config_vbi;