From: Eric Sesterhenn coverity choked at another two !tty checks, in places where tty can never be NULL. Since it removes some code we should remove these checks. (Coverity ids #763,#762) Signed-off-by Eric Sesterhenn Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/char/esp.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/char/esp.c~cleanup-char-espc drivers/char/esp.c --- a/drivers/char/esp.c~cleanup-char-espc +++ a/drivers/char/esp.c @@ -1212,7 +1212,7 @@ static void rs_put_char(struct tty_struc if (serial_paranoia_check(info, tty->name, "rs_put_char")) return; - if (!tty || !info->xmit_buf) + if (!info->xmit_buf) return; spin_lock_irqsave(&info->lock, flags); @@ -1256,7 +1256,7 @@ static int rs_write(struct tty_struct * if (serial_paranoia_check(info, tty->name, "rs_write")) return 0; - if (!tty || !info->xmit_buf) + if (!info->xmit_buf) return 0; while (1) { _