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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>,
	gregkh@suse.de, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] staging/otus: Move a dereference below a NULL test
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:06:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A587245.1080304@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1247307444.3032.2.camel@hpdv5.satnam>

On 07/11/2009 12:17 PM, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 10:17 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> On 07/11/2009 09:51 AM, Julia Lawall wrote:
>>> --- a/drivers/staging/otus/wwrap.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/staging/otus/wwrap.c
>>> @@ -1016,12 +1016,13 @@ void kevent(struct work_struct *work)
>>>  {
>>>      struct usbdrv_private *macp =
>>>                 container_of(work, struct usbdrv_private, kevent);
>>> -    zdev_t *dev = macp->device;
>>> +    zdev_t *dev;
>>>  
>>>      if (macp == NULL)
>>>      {
>>>          return;
>>>      }
>>
>> The test is rather useless here.
>>
> 
> Why useless, it should be non-null before setting to dev.

Even if work was NULL, macp won't be NULL.

> But issue is why function name like kevent() is global and who is using
> it.

Since it's not declared, I guess nobody but keventd. It should be static.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-11 11:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-11  7:51 [PATCH 5/5] staging/otus: Move a dereference below a NULL test Julia Lawall
2009-07-11  8:17 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-07-11  8:31   ` Julia Lawall
2009-07-11 10:17   ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-07-11 10:32     ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-07-11 11:09       ` Jiri Slaby
2009-07-13 17:00         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-11 11:06     ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2009-07-11 11:32       ` Julia Lawall
2009-07-11 11:58         ` Julia Lawall
2009-07-11 17:03   ` Greg KH
2009-07-11 18:28     ` Julia Lawall

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