From: "Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>
To: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
Cc: <paulus@samba.org>, <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
<mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Move a dereference below a NULL test
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 16:22:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180926162232.250c0090@naga> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1537962368-14019-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@huawei.com>
On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 19:46:08 +0800
zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com> wrote:
> It is safe to move dereference below a NULL test.
>
> Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/cacheinfo.c | 5 ++---
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cacheinfo.c
> b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cacheinfo.c index a8f20e5..7f19714 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cacheinfo.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cacheinfo.c
> @@ -401,14 +401,13 @@ static struct cache
> *cache_lookup_or_instantiate(struct device_node *node, struct cache
> *cache;
> cache = cache_lookup_by_node(node);
> + if (!cache)
> + cache = cache_do_one_devnode(node, level);
>
> WARN_ONCE(cache && cache->level != level,
This has also null test so cache should be dereferenced only when
non-null here.
Thanks
Michal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-26 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-26 11:46 [PATCH] powerpc: Move a dereference below a NULL test zhong jiang
2018-09-26 13:58 ` Christophe LEROY
2018-09-26 14:06 ` zhong jiang
2018-09-26 14:22 ` Michal Suchánek [this message]
2018-09-26 14:42 ` zhong jiang
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