From: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
To: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>,
Jesper Nilsson <jespern@axis.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
linux-cris-kernel <linux-cris-kernel@axis.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch: cris: arch-v32: drivers: axisflashmap.c: Cleaning up inconsistent NULL checks
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 09:00:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140523070016.GG9198@axis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1400796009-12716-1-git-send-email-rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 12:00:09AM +0200, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
> Cleaning up inconsistent NULL checks.
> There is otherwise a risk of a possible null pointer dereference.
>
> Was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.
... and is a false positive.
We can't enter this if-block unless ptable_head is set,
which is only set if main_mtd is set.
It might be useful to add it anyways, but there's a refactoring
needed for the axisflashmaps, so I'll keep it for then.
/^JN - Jesper Nilsson
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Jesper Nilsson -- jesper.nilsson@axis.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-23 7:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-22 22:00 [PATCH] arch: cris: arch-v32: drivers: axisflashmap.c: Cleaning up inconsistent NULL checks Rickard Strandqvist
2014-05-23 7:00 ` Jesper Nilsson [this message]
2014-05-23 16:40 ` Rickard Strandqvist
2014-05-26 8:09 ` Jesper Nilsson
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