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[5.4,099/177] ALSA: sb8: Add a comment note regarding an unused pointer

Message ID 20210531130651.315666007@linuxfoundation.org
State Superseded
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Greg Kroah-Hartman May 31, 2021, 1:14 p.m. UTC 
From: Atul Gopinathan <atulgopinathan@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit a28591f61b60fac820c6de59826ffa710e5e314e ]

The field "fm_res" of "struct snd_sb8" is never used/dereferenced
throughout the sb8.c code. Therefore there is no need for any null value
check after the "request_region()".

Add a comment note to make developers know about this and prevent any
"NULL check" patches on this part of code.

Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Atul Gopinathan <atulgopinathan@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503115736.2104747-36-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 sound/isa/sb/sb8.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c b/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c
index 6f1fc8789676..4386c24d2dcc 100644
--- a/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c
+++ b/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c
@@ -94,7 +94,11 @@  static int snd_sb8_probe(struct device *pdev, unsigned int dev)
 	acard = card->private_data;
 	card->private_free = snd_sb8_free;
 
-	/* block the 0x388 port to avoid PnP conflicts */
+	/*
+	 * Block the 0x388 port to avoid PnP conflicts.
+	 * No need to check this value after request_region,
+	 * as we never do anything with it.
+	 */
 	acard->fm_res = request_region(0x388, 4, "SoundBlaster FM");
 
 	if (port[dev] != SNDRV_AUTO_PORT) {