From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Fix Smatch warning. Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:57:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20120311.155736.298099455288242780.davem@davemloft.net> References: <4F58041F.5060209@cn.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dan.carpenter@oracle.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: lw@cn.fujitsu.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:41971 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753602Ab2CKW5r (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:57:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4F58041F.5060209@cn.fujitsu.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Li Wei Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:58:07 +0800 > > With commit d6ddef9e641d(IPv6: Fix not join all-router mcast group > when forwarding set.) I check 'dev' after it's dereference that > leads to a Smatch complaint: > > net/ipv6/addrconf.c:438 ipv6_add_dev() > warn: variable dereferenced before check 'dev' (see line 432) ... > Remove the check to avoid the complaint as 'dev' can't be NULL. > > Reported-by: Dan Carpenter > Signed-off-by: Li Wei Applied.