From: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 23:33:40 +0100 (CET)

quoted text
> Hi there,
> 
> In drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_cmx.c::dsp_cmx_send_member() we currently have 
> this code:
> 
>            if (dsp->conf && dsp->conf->software && dsp->conf->hardware)
>                    tx_data_only = 1;
>            if (dsp->conf->software && dsp->echo.hardware)
>                    tx_data_only = 1;
> 
> The first line implies that 'dsp->conf' may be NULL. If it is, then the 
> third line will dereference a NULL pointer.
> 
> This patch reworks the code so that we avoid the potential NULL deref.
> It also has the added benefit that the object file size shrinks a bit.
> 
> before:
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   18840     112    5784   24736    60a0 drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_cmx.o
> after:
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   18816     112    5776   24704    6080 drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_cmx.o
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>

Applied.
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