From: Adrian Bunk This patch fixes a non-working NULL check introduced by commit b229cf92eee616c7cb5ad8cdb35a19b119f00bc8. Spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/acpi/osl.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/acpi/osl.c~drivers-acpi-oslc-fix-a-null-check drivers/acpi/osl.c --- a/drivers/acpi/osl.c~drivers-acpi-oslc-fix-a-null-check +++ a/drivers/acpi/osl.c @@ -1040,7 +1040,7 @@ acpi_status acpi_os_create_cache(char *name, u16 size, u16 depth, acpi_cache_t ** cache) { *cache = kmem_cache_create(name, size, 0, 0, NULL, NULL); - if (cache == NULL) + if (*cache == NULL) return AE_ERROR; else return AE_OK; _