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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Jakob Koschel <jakobkoschel@gmail.com>
Cc: Vaibhav Agarwal <vaibhav.sr@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greybus-dev@lists.linaro.org,
	linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
	Mark Greer <mgreer@animalcreek.com>,
	Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>, Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Brian Johannesmeyer <bjohannesmeyer@gmail.com>,
	Cristiano Giuffrida <c.giuffrida@vu.nl>,
	"Bos, H.J." <h.j.bos@vu.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: codecs: fix type confusion with dedicated list iterator variable
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 11:48:45 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220321084844.GG3293@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220319202058.2518847-1-jakobkoschel@gmail.com>

The subject says that it fixes a bug but it does not.

On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 09:20:58PM +0100, Jakob Koschel wrote:
> If the list does not exit early then data == NULL and 'module' does not
> point to a valid list element.
> Using 'module' in such a case is not valid and was therefore removed.

This paragraph is confusing jumble words.  Just say: "This code is fine".

> 
> In preparation to limit the scope of the list iterator to the list
> traversal loop, use a dedicated pointer pointing to the found element [1].

This paragraph is the information we need.  Just add something like
"This patch has no effect on runtime".

regards,
dan carpenter

  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-21  8:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-19 20:20 [PATCH] staging: greybus: codecs: fix type confusion with dedicated list iterator variable Jakob Koschel
2022-03-21  8:48 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2022-03-21  9:06   ` Jakob Koschel
2022-03-21  9:21     ` Dan Carpenter
2022-03-21  9:27       ` Jakob Koschel
2022-03-21 12:18         ` [greybus-dev] " Alex Elder

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