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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: drivers/net/chelsio/my3126.c: inconsequent NULL checking
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 12:34:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061207113452.GD8963@stusta.de> (raw)

The Coverity checker spotted the following inconsequent NULL checking 
introduced by commit f1d3d38af75789f1b82969b83b69cab540609789:

<--  snip  -->

...
static struct cphy *my3126_phy_create(adapter_t *adapter,
                        int phy_addr, struct mdio_ops *mdio_ops)
{
        struct cphy *cphy = kzalloc(sizeof (*cphy), GFP_KERNEL);

        if (cphy)
                cphy_init(cphy, adapter, phy_addr, &my3126_ops, mdio_ops);

        INIT_WORK(&cphy->phy_update, my3216_poll, cphy);
        cphy->bmsr = 0;

        return (cphy);
}
...

<--  snip  -->

It doesn't make sense to first check whether "cphy" is NULL and 
dereference it unconditionally later.

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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             reply	other threads:[~2006-12-07 11:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-07 11:34 Adrian Bunk [this message]
2006-12-07 13:22 ` drivers/net/chelsio/my3126.c: inconsequent NULL checking Jesper Juhl
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2006-12-07 15:56 Felix Marti

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