From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To: Firo Yang <firogm@gmail.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
davem@davemloft.net, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org,
yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fib_trie: Fix potential null pointer dereference
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2015 13:23:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1506071520410.2716@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150607131924.GA16087@firo>
> >I think that many people would make the same mistake when looking at the
> >code. The change doesn't seem to hurt anything?
> Actually, yes. But it does imporve nothing but coding style.
> I think Alexander's code style make function more compact is also a
> good code style. So, just keep it original.
Still it makes noise when other people look at the code and find that it
looks odd. Removing the false positive in smatch won't completely help,
because people could look at the code for other reasons.
But, as you like.
julia
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-07 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-06 11:35 [PATCH] fib_trie: Fix potential null pointer dereference Firo Yang
2015-06-06 12:05 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-06-07 3:20 ` Alexander Duyck
[not found] ` <5573B7A2.4010607@gmail.com>
2015-06-07 4:46 ` Firo Yang
2015-06-07 6:01 ` Firo Yang
2015-06-07 6:36 ` Julia Lawall
2015-06-07 13:19 ` Firo Yang
2015-06-07 13:23 ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2015-06-07 13:42 ` Firo Yang
2015-06-07 16:36 ` Alexander Duyck
2015-06-06 13:39 ` walter harms
2015-06-07 4:52 ` Firo Yang
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