From: atull <atull@opensource.altera.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
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Josh Cartwright <joshc@ni.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] add FPGA manager core
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 11:15:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1509231101050.23595@linuxheads99> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150923141106.GH4953@mwanda>
On Wed, 23 Sep 2015, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 03:23:54PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > +int fpga_mgr_firmware_load(struct fpga_manager *mgr, u32 flags,
> > > > + const char *image_name)
> > > > +{
> > > > + struct device *dev = &mgr->dev;
> > > > + const struct firmware *fw;
> > > > + int ret;
> > > > +
> > > > + if (!mgr)
> > > > + return -ENODEV;
> > >
> > > Again; I'm of the opinion this is needlessly defensive.
> >
> > Not only that, it can never happen. mgr is already dereferenced above.
> >
>
> It's not dereferenced. We're taking the address of mgr->dev but we
> don't dereference mgr.
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
>
That's correct, it's not dereferenced.
Is there some community agreement on whether we want to check a pointer
that has been passed for NULL or not? This is C code after all. Checking
a passed pointer for NULL is a very common reason to return -ENODEV.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-23 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-22 15:21 [PATCH v11 0/4] FPGA Manager Framework atull
2015-09-22 15:21 ` [PATCH v11 1/4] usage documentation for FPGA manager core atull
2015-09-23 0:50 ` Moritz Fischer
2015-09-22 15:21 ` [PATCH v11 2/4] fpga manager: add sysfs interface document atull
[not found] ` <1442935271-10375-3-git-send-email-atull-yzvPICuk2ABMcg4IHK0kFoH6Mc4MB0Vx@public.gmane.org>
2015-09-23 0:52 ` Moritz Fischer
2015-09-22 15:21 ` [PATCH v11 3/4] add FPGA manager core atull
[not found] ` <1442935271-10375-4-git-send-email-atull-yzvPICuk2ABMcg4IHK0kFoH6Mc4MB0Vx@public.gmane.org>
2015-09-22 22:29 ` Josh Cartwright
2015-09-23 13:23 ` Pavel Machek
2015-09-23 14:11 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-09-23 16:15 ` atull [this message]
2015-09-24 7:49 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-09-24 20:47 ` atull
2015-09-24 21:13 ` Pavel Machek
2015-09-25 10:00 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-09-23 17:10 ` atull
2015-09-23 23:03 ` Josh Cartwright
2015-09-24 20:24 ` atull
2015-09-22 15:21 ` [PATCH v11 4/4] fpga manager: add driver for socfpga fpga manager atull
2015-09-22 22:47 ` Josh Cartwright
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-10-07 15:36 [PATCH v11 0/4] FPGA Manager Framework atull
2015-10-07 15:36 ` [PATCH v11 3/4] add FPGA manager core atull
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