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From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>,
	gregkh@suse.de, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] staging/otus: Move a dereference below a NULL test
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:29:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1247307444.3032.2.camel@hpdv5.satnam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A584A94.5010105@gmail.com>

On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 10:17 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 07/11/2009 09:51 AM, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > diff -u -p a/drivers/staging/otus/wwrap.c b/drivers/staging/otus/wwrap.c
> > --- a/drivers/staging/otus/wwrap.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/otus/wwrap.c
> > @@ -1016,12 +1016,13 @@ void kevent(struct work_struct *work)
> >  {
> >      struct usbdrv_private *macp > >                 container_of(work, struct usbdrv_private, kevent);
> > -    zdev_t *dev = macp->device;
> > +    zdev_t *dev;
> >  
> >      if (macp = NULL)
> >      {
> >          return;
> >      }
> 
> The test is rather useless here.
> 

Why useless, it should be non-null before setting to dev.

But issue is why function name like kevent() is global and who is using
it.

> > +    dev = macp->device;
> 
> 

Thanks,
--
JSR


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-11 10:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-11  7:51 [PATCH 5/5] staging/otus: Move a dereference below a NULL test Julia Lawall
2009-07-11  8:17 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-07-11  8:31   ` Julia Lawall
2009-07-11 10:29   ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput [this message]
2009-07-11 10:44     ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-07-11 11:09       ` Jiri Slaby
2009-07-13 17:00         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-11 11:06     ` Jiri Slaby
2009-07-11 11:32       ` Julia Lawall
2009-07-11 11:58         ` Julia Lawall
2009-07-11 17:03   ` Greg KH
2009-07-11 18:28     ` Julia Lawall

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