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Date:	Sun, 22 Nov 2015 18:18:37 +0530
From:	Saurabh Sengar <saurabh.truth@...il.com>
To:	eli@...lanox.com, dledford@...hat.com, sean.hefty@...el.com,
	hal.rosenstock@...il.com, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Saurabh Sengar <saurabh.truth@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] IB/mlx5: fix null dereference

removing null dereference

Signed-off-by: Saurabh Sengar <saurabh.truth@...il.com>
---
is there any better way to fix it ?
as if there is no 'x' there is no way we can access 'x->lock'

 drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.c | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.c
index 307bdbc..613a853 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.c
@@ -1064,13 +1064,10 @@ static void mlx5_ib_lock_cqs(struct mlx5_ib_cq *send_cq, struct mlx5_ib_cq *recv
 			}
 		} else {
 			spin_lock_irq(&send_cq->lock);
-			__acquire(&recv_cq->lock);
 		}
 	} else if (recv_cq) {
 		spin_lock_irq(&recv_cq->lock);
-		__acquire(&send_cq->lock);
 	} else {
-		__acquire(&send_cq->lock);
 		__acquire(&recv_cq->lock);
 	}
 }
@@ -1091,15 +1088,12 @@ static void mlx5_ib_unlock_cqs(struct mlx5_ib_cq *send_cq, struct mlx5_ib_cq *re
 				spin_unlock_irq(&recv_cq->lock);
 			}
 		} else {
-			__release(&recv_cq->lock);
 			spin_unlock_irq(&send_cq->lock);
 		}
 	} else if (recv_cq) {
-		__release(&send_cq->lock);
 		spin_unlock_irq(&recv_cq->lock);
 	} else {
 		__release(&recv_cq->lock);
-		__release(&send_cq->lock);
 	}
 }
 
-- 
1.9.1

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