This reverts commit dcd0feac9bab901d5739de51b3f69840851f8919.

Because of recent interactions with developers from @umn.edu, all commits from them have been recently re-reviewed to ensure if they were correct or not.

Upon review, this commit was found to be incorrect for the reasons below, so it must be reverted. It will be fixed up "correctly" in a later kernel change.

The original commit message for this change was incorrect as the code path can never result in a NULL dereference, alluding to the fact that whatever tool was used to "find this" is broken. It's just an optional resource reservation, so removing this check is fine.

Cc: Kangjie Lu kjlu@umn.edu Acked-by: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de Fixes: dcd0feac9bab ("ALSA: sb8: add a check for request_region") Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- sound/isa/sb/sb8.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c b/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c index 6c9d534ce8b6..95290ffe5c6e 100644 --- a/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c +++ b/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c @@ -95,10 +95,6 @@ static int snd_sb8_probe(struct device *pdev, unsigned int dev)

/* block the 0x388 port to avoid PnP conflicts */ acard->fm_res = request_region(0x388, 4, "SoundBlaster FM"); - if (!acard->fm_res) { - err = -EBUSY; - goto _err; - }

if (port[dev] != SNDRV_AUTO_PORT) { if ((err = snd_sbdsp_create(card, port[dev], irq[dev],