hi,
coverity was lead to two false bug reports ( #782, #783 )
where the driver checked if tty was valid, when it should
always be. All cases which I found call these functions
by tty->driver->mgsl_write(...) so tty has to be valid.
This patch removes those two checks.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <[email protected]>
--- linux-2.6.17-rc5/drivers/char/synclink.c.orig 2006-06-08 00:06:04.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc5/drivers/char/synclink.c 2006-06-08 00:06:56.000000000 +0200
@@ -2049,7 +2049,7 @@ static void mgsl_put_char(struct tty_str
if (mgsl_paranoia_check(info, tty->name, "mgsl_put_char"))
return;
- if (!tty || !info->xmit_buf)
+ if (!info->xmit_buf)
return;
spin_lock_irqsave(&info->irq_spinlock,flags);
@@ -2139,7 +2139,7 @@ static int mgsl_write(struct tty_struct
if (mgsl_paranoia_check(info, tty->name, "mgsl_write"))
goto cleanup;
- if (!tty || !info->xmit_buf)
+ if (!info->xmit_buf)
goto cleanup;
if ( info->params.mode == MGSL_MODE_HDLC ||
-
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