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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>