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.o... 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(-)

diff --git a/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c b/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c index 1eb8b61a185b..fb59e5179075 100644 --- a/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c +++ b/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c @@ -109,7 +109,11 @@ 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 (!acard->fm_res) { err = -EBUSY;