From: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Cc: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>,
Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski@linux.intel.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
Ariel Elior <aelior@marvell.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Manish Chopra <manishc@marvell.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Ram Amrani <Ram.Amrani@caviumnetworks.com>,
Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@caviumnetworks.com>,
cocci@inria.fr, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND] qed: Move a variable assignment behind a null pointer check in two functions
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 18:35:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250303183532.580eb301@kmaincent-XPS-13-7390> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a191bd33-6c59-45c2-9890-265ec182b39a@stanley.mountain>
On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 11:28:29 +0300
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 09:22:58AM +0100, Markus Elfring wrote:
> > > The assignment:
> > >
> > > p_rx = &p_ll2_conn->rx_queue;
> > >
> > > does not dereference "p_ll2_conn". It just does pointer math. So the
> > > original code works fine.
> >
> > Is there a need to clarify affected implementation details any more?
> > https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/EXP34-C.+Do+not+dereference+null+pointers
> >
>
> This is not a NULL dereference. It's just pointer math.
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
Feel free to ignore Markus, he has a long history of sending unhelpful reviews,
comments or patches and continues to ignore repeated requests to stop. He is
already on the ignore lists of several maintainers.
There is a lot of chance that he is a bot.
Regards,
--
Köry Maincent, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-03-03 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <1a11455f-ab57-dce0-1677-6beb8492a257@web.de>
[not found] ` <f7967bee-f3f1-54c4-7352-40c39dd7fead@web.de>
2025-03-02 16:55 ` [PATCH RESEND] qed: Move a variable assignment behind a null pointer check in two functions Markus Elfring
2025-03-03 6:21 ` Michal Swiatkowski
2025-03-03 7:40 ` Dan Carpenter
2025-03-03 8:22 ` [RESEND] " Markus Elfring
2025-03-03 8:28 ` Dan Carpenter
2025-03-03 10:25 ` Markus Elfring
2025-03-03 17:35 ` Kory Maincent [this message]
2025-03-03 17:55 ` Markus Elfring
[not found] ` <624fb730-d9de-ba92-1641-f21260b65283@web.de>
2025-03-02 20:30 ` [PATCH RESEND] tipc: Reduce scope for the variable “fdefq” in tipc_link_tnl_prepare() Markus Elfring
2025-03-05 2:50 ` Jakub Kicinski
[not found] ` <d90b8c11-7a40-eec4-007d-3640c0725a56@web.de>
2025-03-03 13:04 ` [PATCH RESEND] iwlegacy: Adjust input parameter validation in il_set_ht_add_station() Markus Elfring
[not found] ` <9cb634c8-d6e6-32bc-5fd6-79bf6b274f96@web.de>
2025-03-03 13:18 ` [PATCH RESEND] iwlwifi: Adjust input parameter validation in iwl_sta_calc_ht_flags() Markus Elfring
2025-03-03 13:46 ` Berg, Benjamin
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