Netdev_priv performs an addition, not a pointer dereference, so it seems
quite unlikely that its result would ever be NULL.
A semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@@
statement S;
@@
- if (!netdev_priv(...)) S
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Acked-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>