From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] kcore: fix test for end of list
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:05:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100322120509.GC21571@bicker> (raw)
"m" is never NULL here. We need a different test for the end of list
condition.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
---
Found with a static checker and compile tested only. Please review
carefully.
diff --git a/fs/proc/kcore.c b/fs/proc/kcore.c
index a44a789..b442dac 100644
--- a/fs/proc/kcore.c
+++ b/fs/proc/kcore.c
@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ read_kcore(struct file *file, char __user *buffer, size_t buflen, loff_t *fpos)
}
read_unlock(&kclist_lock);
- if (m = NULL) {
+ if (&m->list = &kclist_head) {
if (clear_user(buffer, tsz))
return -EFAULT;
} else if (is_vmalloc_or_module_addr((void *)start)) {
next reply other threads:[~2010-03-22 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-22 12:05 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2010-03-23 0:18 ` [patch] kcore: fix test for end of list KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-03-23 2:47 ` Américo Wang
2010-03-23 3:31 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-23 6:54 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-03-23 7:00 ` Américo Wang
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