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From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>,
	Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] dma/shdma: move dereference below the NULL check
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:01:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100814090145.GW645@bicker> (raw)

"param" can be NULL here, so only dereference it after the check.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>

diff --git a/drivers/dma/shdma.c b/drivers/dma/shdma.c
index fb64cf3..eb6b54d 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/shdma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/shdma.c
@@ -580,7 +580,6 @@ static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *sh_dmae_prep_slave_sg(
 
 	sh_chan = to_sh_chan(chan);
 	param = chan->private;
-	slave_addr = param->config->addr;
 
 	/* Someone calling slave DMA on a public channel? */
 	if (!param || !sg_len) {
@@ -589,6 +588,8 @@ static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *sh_dmae_prep_slave_sg(
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
+	slave_addr = param->config->addr;
+
 	/*
 	 * if (param != NULL), this is a successfully requested slave channel,
 	 * therefore param->config != NULL too.

             reply	other threads:[~2010-08-14  9:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-14  9:01 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2010-08-16  8:46 ` [patch] dma/shdma: move dereference below the NULL check Dan Williams

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