4.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@xxxxxxxxx> commit 2b16056f845207967a32497f41cf92b57849f934 upstream. Remove IS_ERR check from caching code as the function being called does not actually return error pointers. Fixes: f19bd643dbde: "IB/hfi1: Prevent NULL pointer deferences in caching code" Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Dean Luick <dean.luick@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/user_sdma.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/user_sdma.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/user_sdma.c @@ -1152,7 +1152,7 @@ static int pin_vector_pages(struct user_ rb_node = hfi1_mmu_rb_extract(pq->handler, (unsigned long)iovec->iov.iov_base, iovec->iov.iov_len); - if (rb_node && !IS_ERR(rb_node)) + if (rb_node) node = container_of(rb_node, struct sdma_mmu_node, rb); else rb_node = NULL; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html