From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from gabe.freedesktop.org (gabe.freedesktop.org [131.252.210.177]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D965DC6FD18 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2023 14:16:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gabe.freedesktop.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1728C10E053; Tue, 25 Apr 2023 14:16:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.web.de (mout.web.de [212.227.17.11]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4B6BF10E053 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2023 14:16:08 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=web.de; s=s29768273; t=1682432154; i=markus.elfring@web.de; bh=8bfz41NFqOMLyEMU3/iMzHFsfhiD3AnnDtGlJF9nEDk=; h=X-UI-Sender-Class:Date:Subject:To:Cc:References:From:In-Reply-To; b=rexEqEq+iqjiHhuYy6r/fSpGllNnvYrzapxIYEYtlA1F3KK16g2xRNgsRnxtGVGBY Bxxz4Ibl+qa6q9lE9dDlaGP9teejIHouXgYQwFVDa5f5o9tijQKXm82hFBEGf0v8Hu Rh/GOGjslf1Unwr4x6WccZJ4h1kEesBPiAUNnTLPGGFMyJLPEaBF543KQNgOkZRZSs FaFfKf+2UA7i44RCSeeEMPsBxEnDalvZgSsemm1zY/U/3bCLqzsLGPdFf6eHk+p8I1 7Z3seT5+Fb17QgPPmINNdYlICfhcAPg+W8yvo1RaVPi2Iv3dWA4AiHs6kBypH4TywN 1LKrZLBPyjLVg== X-UI-Sender-Class: 814a7b36-bfc1-4dae-8640-3722d8ec6cd6 Received: from [192.168.178.21] ([94.31.82.83]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb106 [213.165.67.124]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1MtPvg-1q9GoW3BeA-00ue5h; Tue, 25 Apr 2023 16:15:54 +0200 Message-ID: <6f758653-36c9-91a2-7bbc-278ae3f8ccee@web.de> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2023 16:15:51 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.10.1 Subject: Re: drm/bridge: it6505: Move a variable assignment behind a null pointer check in receive_timing_debugfs_show() Content-Language: en-GB To: Robert Foss , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Allen Chen , Andrzej Hajda , AngeloGioacchino Del Regno , Daniel Vetter , David Airlie , Hermes Wu , Hsin-yi Wang , Jernej Skrabec , Jonas Karlman , Laurent Pinchart , Neil Armstrong References: <40c60719-4bfe-b1a4-ead7-724b84637f55@web.de> <1a11455f-ab57-dce0-1677-6beb8492a257@web.de> <14636275-4d26-d639-5f6e-293fc6d1c4c6@web.de> From: Markus Elfring In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:X09Tc0Fni7Q32vRjvx6Lp+ADugqqF6S21Vw8flGxT5heb7er/Li AFO/7m7Lzeui3BgqiJHd4CN+4l4HhbPcw9h+kP2UZLH/N14HDgbOXt2gsqx3sY982J8lcKW UwDDhadaphfDvadYPz1V00u2ysKo/roTAosogp1LMpjr5vXzhMvfaBcXEtQFjGy9nLB0S0d CfugamEsimiANerTueCDQ== UI-OutboundReport: notjunk:1;M01:P0:bNQDFXSB7t4=;t6nlYVYwi47XzLp0Xmqi5UGkjUN /qm543QuMN3bW6NdsEBQStYh5aIT9LcblkafEy+GR34SpbL7TGKtRZcFiUEkIXsP47on6nDsS hYN7WT8h7r/pw3I+hSqyHj1aGNuqbFj2beLsUxohN9LTofH6+vy3h3397CaMTLYhdXvF26CQS kOTOqcM/3ZuaYF3Fuk5C3IUwDYd61QkQAhVaL69a237thickNdlwhY2r2i9zXLOSUJAp97k+I X7Hw/QvzJQnUBF1jd1SBEihCyfKlWNsRg3thImKirIPsDk/sD69RKUwbN3a9aQcrnKJb86oBI IwTk6tVvNysDnwWd5tclaHUAHZCz1+2G56G/YHvICX6OvrGLWdirLglYwJnOmllts2X4vo7Ow tcZ0bx3S3fbcMos6D3HsLfOA6fQH8UxfpZSdkPnZVoPXRV2juT6wZUrgwZ7L0Nmg0QUyMveoj LItSf7LK8t7wdHYB+4j98I+Io6ZjhDZdYr4wzf/kIZ6gMdZtBqTgmHiqamw/AUaS+28SAi/yG HBtNzs+SqdipMRFKNHb5hCwRoPOFaDN0ZIJhkOnCEujURIkgPBLEqBmbUiGkQrvJiVmnAytaw nVPotL7kc7/xhyg3DvaYz3wYUpsR5yVWpSu1r73qeo4DAEDvgSDtNN41npAzRRn7vyw0kNTgM KumiGf6Y9MWVR3e1XCJDUg6R8Zl3AGzl0H3KpeCFgLoBE64ODghTjbGfC5pIb5/LZ3A+klRAM eifCPS/umibEXbssnZ3GNTl8NNforeywv5QGw/CkC/KyGgz5o48barkakFuF37+Obvz8wloM/ rPeK9omYA1F1RnvX8j1ds/wAAXhVCo3rm+QQ8qlR5T+Gd9QKZeA/H3RzCNFx7UgcWGg6ZT+Wg vdF4wjKKTf2Ym1Rx/Nx1qrc/9JoAVHrDTPM20vHiEE574EtwWfWAzVpeJekBYAYqSnTvRGewP 2Ub4dg== X-BeenThere: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Direct Rendering Infrastructure - Development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: LKML , cocci@inria.fr Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Sender: "dri-devel" > This patch seems to be a part of a series without being marked as such, The mentioned patch affects only a single function implementation. > this causes issues when importing this patch with maintainer tools > like b4 which automatically pull in the entire series and not > just the specific patch. It is a pity that there are special technical difficulties. > Either label the patch as being part of a series ( [PATCH 1/XX] ), Further software modules were similarly affected. See also: Reconsidering pointer dereferences before null pointer checks (with SmPL) https://lore.kernel.org/cocci/1a11455f-ab57-dce0-1677-6beb8492a257@web.de/ https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/cocci/2023-04/msg00021.html > or submit it separately. I thought that I did that (in principle). Regards, Markus