From: Micah Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch fixes an apparent potential null dereference bug where we dereference dev before a null check. This patch simply remvoes the can't-happen test for a null pointer.
Signed-off-by: Micah Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/tulip/uli526x.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/net/tulip/uli526x.c~fix-a-potential-null-pointer-dereference-in-uli526x_interrupt drivers/net/tulip/uli526x.c --- a/drivers/net/tulip/uli526x.c~fix-a-potential-null-pointer-dereference-in-uli526x_interrupt +++ a/drivers/net/tulip/uli526x.c @@ -664,11 +664,6 @@ static irqreturn_t uli526x_interrupt(int unsigned long ioaddr = dev->base_addr; unsigned long flags; - if (!dev) { - ULI526X_DBUG(1, "uli526x_interrupt() without DEVICE arg", 0); - return IRQ_NONE; - } - spin_lock_irqsave(&db->lock, flags); outl(0, ioaddr + DCR7); _ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html