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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: baycom_par dereference before check.
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:53:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040416215319.GW20937@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <408054C9.5070202@pobox.com>

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 05:48:57PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

 > >Good point. Still doesn't strike me as particularly nice though.
 > I would rather just remove the checks completely.  The success of any of 
 > those checks is a BUG() condition that should never occur.

That works for me too. How about this?

		Dave

--- linux-2.6.5/drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c~	2004-04-16 22:52:35.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.5/drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c	2004-04-16 22:52:53.000000000 +0100
@@ -274,8 +274,8 @@
 	struct net_device *dev = (struct net_device *)dev_id;
 	struct baycom_state *bc = netdev_priv(dev);
 
-	if (!dev || !bc || bc->hdrv.magic != HDLCDRV_MAGIC)
-		return;
+	BUG_ON(!bc);
+	BUG_ON(bc->hdrv.magic != HDLCDRV_MAGIC);
 
 	baycom_int_freq(bc);
 	/*

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-16 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-16 21:20 baycom_par dereference before check Dave Jones
2004-04-16 21:25 ` viro
2004-04-16 21:27   ` Dave Jones
2004-04-16 21:48     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-04-16 21:53       ` Dave Jones [this message]
2004-04-16 23:07         ` Chris Wright
2004-04-16 23:40           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-04-19 16:39         ` Jeff Garzik

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