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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: orinoco potentially dereferencing before check
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:22:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4083FCC8.70203@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040417112549.GA32444@zax>

David Gibson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 10:18:26PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> 
>>+++ linux-2.6.5/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_pci.c	2004-04-16 22:17:30.000000000 +0100
>>@@ -275,14 +275,16 @@
>> static void __devexit orinoco_pci_remove_one(struct pci_dev *pdev)
>> {
>> 	struct net_device *dev = pci_get_drvdata(pdev);
>>-	struct orinoco_private *priv = dev->priv;
>>+	struct orinoco_private *priv;
>> 
>> 	if (! dev)
>> 		BUG();
>> 
>>+	priv = dev->priv;
>>+
>> 	unregister_netdev(dev);
>> 
>>-        if (dev->irq)
>>+	if (dev->irq)
>> 		free_irq(dev->irq, dev);
>> 
>> 	if (priv->hw.iobase)
>>-
> 
> 
> Better to just remove the if (! dev) BUG().  I don't believe we've
> ever hit that particular BUG() in debugging, so there's probably not
> much point having it.


done.

	Jeff




      reply	other threads:[~2004-04-19 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-16 21:18 orinoco potentially dereferencing before check Dave Jones
2004-04-17 11:25 ` David Gibson
2004-04-19 16:22   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]

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