From: Jesper Juhl In xl_freemem(), if dev_if is NULL, the line struct xl_private *xl_priv =(struct xl_private *)dev->priv; will cause a NULL pointer dereference. (akpm: don't try to fix it: just delete the pointless test-for-null) Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c~avoid-possible-null-pointer-deref-in-3c359-driver drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c --- a/drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c~avoid-possible-null-pointer-deref-in-3c359-driver +++ a/drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c @@ -1045,11 +1045,6 @@ static irqreturn_t xl_interrupt(int irq, u8 __iomem * xl_mmio = xl_priv->xl_mmio ; u16 intstatus, macstatus ; - if (!dev) { - printk(KERN_WARNING "Device structure dead, aaahhhh !\n") ; - return IRQ_NONE; - } - intstatus = readw(xl_mmio + MMIO_INTSTATUS) ; if (!(intstatus & 1)) /* We didn't generate the interrupt */ _