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From: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@samsung.com>,
	lgirdwood@gmail.com, patches@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pankaj.m@samsung.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] regulator: wm831x-dcdc: Use pointer after NULL check
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 12:19:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150702111950.GD16517@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150702111456.GY11162@sirena.org.uk>

On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 12:14:56PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 11:18:49AM +0100, Charles Keepax wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 01:27:09PM +0530, Maninder Singh wrote:
> > > pdata is used before NULL check, so it looks misleading.
> 
> > The patch basically looks fine, but it feels a bit like needless
> > churn. The current code is perfectly correct and feels clear
> > enough to me.
> 
> It's a bug - either the validation shouldn't be there or it needs to be
> before the use otherwise it does nothing. 

ARRAY_SIZE being implemented with sizeof's means that no actual
dereference takes place. But if we have multiple people thinking
this looks buggy then I guess the code probably isn't clear
enough at the moment.

Acked-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

Thanks,
Charles

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-02 11:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-02  7:57 [PATCH v2] regulator: wm831x-dcdc: Use pointer after NULL check Maninder Singh
2015-07-02 10:18 ` Charles Keepax
2015-07-02 11:14   ` Mark Brown
2015-07-02 11:19     ` Charles Keepax [this message]
2015-07-02 11:33       ` Mark Brown
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-07-02 11:02 Maninder Singh
2015-07-02 11:12 ` Charles Keepax

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