2008-02-22 16:31:19

by Ray Lee

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Subject: [patch] Remove unneeded null tty check in drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.c

The Coverity checker (and Adrian Bunk) spotted an inconsistent
NULL check of port->tty (it's blindly dereferenced later without
the check).

Alan Cox confirmed the check can go.

Signed-off-by: Ray Lee <[email protected]>

cc: [email protected]
cc: Greg KH <[email protected]>
cc: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
cc: [email protected]
cc: Alan Cox <[email protected]>

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.c 2008-02-22 07:26:47.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.c 2008-02-22 07:28:12.000000000 -0800
@@ -1944,8 +1944,7 @@ static int edge_open (struct usb_serial_
if (edge_port == NULL)
return -ENODEV;

- if (port->tty)
- port->tty->low_latency = low_latency;
+ port->tty->low_latency = low_latency;

port_number = port->number - port->serial->minor;
switch (port_number) {

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