Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 7/9] xen/xenbus: Check before dereferencing it.

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 09:01:21AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 20:52 +0100, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > . we do the check whether 'xdev' is NULL - but after we have
> > dereferenced it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c |    3 ++-
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c
> > index 60adf91..331589a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c
> > +++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c
> > @@ -103,10 +103,11 @@ static int xenbus_uevent_backend(struct device *dev,
> >  		return -ENODEV;
> >  
> >  	xdev = to_xenbus_device(dev);
> 
> to_xenbus_device is just container_of. The only way it would return NULL
> is if dev == offsetof(struct xenbus_device, dev), which isn't terribly
> likely. A more likely error would be dev == NULL and we just checked
> above.
> 
> > -	bus = container_of(xdev->dev.bus, struct xen_bus_type, bus);
> >  	if (xdev == NULL)
> >  		return -ENODEV;

Hm, in which case this 'xdev == NULL' is pointless. Will remove it.