Re: [PATCH 5/5] staging/otus: Move a dereference below a NULL test

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Sat Jul 11 2009 - 04:17:51 EST


On 07/11/2009 09:51 AM, Julia Lawall wrote:
> diff -u -p a/drivers/staging/otus/wwrap.c b/drivers/staging/otus/wwrap.c
> --- 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.

> + dev = macp->device;


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