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Hi Artem,

On 11-05-20 06:46 AM, ext Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 13:00 +0100, maxin wrote:
>> This patch fixes the possible null dereference of the variable "oinfo"
> 
> Does this print makes sense? Which ECC? I think it should me something
> like "mtd% does not have OOB", mtd->index.
> 

Thank you very much for reviewing the patch.I have updated the print message 
as per your suggestion as it makes more sense for this case.

> Moreover, you should make the print consistent with the other prints
> which start with MTDSWAP_PREFIX.
> 

I have updated the patch as per your comments.

Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <john.maxin@nokia.com>
---
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdswap.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdswap.c
index fed215c..62ddb3a 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdswap.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdswap.c
@@ -1450,7 +1450,13 @@ static void mtdswap_add_mtd(struct mtd_blktrans_ops *tr, struct mtd_info *mtd)
 	}
 
 	oinfo = mtd->ecclayout;
-	if (!mtd->oobsize || !oinfo || oinfo->oobavail < MTDSWAP_OOBSIZE) {
+	if (!oinfo) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: mtd%d does not have OOB"
+			"\n", MTDSWAP_PREFIX, mtd->index);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	if (!mtd->oobsize || oinfo->oobavail < MTDSWAP_OOBSIZE) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Not enough free bytes in OOB, "
 			"%d available, %zu needed.\n",
 			MTDSWAP_PREFIX, oinfo->oobavail, MTDSWAP_OOBSIZE);