Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: fix fw is NULL but dereferenced

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 06:19:26PM +0800, Jian Dong wrote:
> From: Jian Dong <dongjian@yulong.com>
> 
>  fixes coccicheck Error:
> 
>  drivers/staging/greybus/bootrom.c:301:41-45: ERROR:
>  fw is NULL but dereferenced.
> 
>  if procedure goto label directly, ret will be nefative, so the fw is NULL
>  and the if(condition) end with dereferenced fw. let's fix it.

Why is this all indented a space?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Jian Dong <dongjian@yulong.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/greybus/bootrom.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/bootrom.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/bootrom.c
> index a8efb86..0439efa 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/greybus/bootrom.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/bootrom.c
> @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ static int gb_bootrom_get_firmware(struct gb_operation *op)
>  	struct gb_bootrom_get_firmware_response *firmware_response;
>  	struct device *dev = &op->connection->bundle->dev;
>  	unsigned int offset, size;
> -	enum next_request_type next_request;
> +	enum next_request_type next_request = NEXT_REQ_GET_FIRMWARE;
>  	int ret = 0;
>  
>  	/* Disable timeouts */
> @@ -298,10 +298,10 @@ static int gb_bootrom_get_firmware(struct gb_operation *op)
>  
>  queue_work:
>  	/* Refresh timeout */
> -	if (!ret && (offset + size == fw->size))
> -		next_request = NEXT_REQ_READY_TO_BOOT;
> -	else
> +	if (!!ret)

That is hard to understand, please make this more obvious.

thanks,

greg k-h