Re: [PATCH 2/14] sound: Move dereference after NULL test and drop unnecessary NULL tests

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Fri Oct 30 2009 - 07:02:13 EST


At Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:33:22 +0200 (CEST),
Julia Lawall wrote:
>
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
>
> In pcm.c, if the NULL test on pcm is needed, then the dereference should be
> after the NULL test.
>
> In dummy.c and ali5451.c, the context of the calls to
> snd_card_dummy_new_mixer and snd_ali_free_voice show that dummy and pvoice,
> respectively cannot be NULL.
>
> A simplified version of the semantic match that detects this problem is as
> follows (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/):
>
> // <smpl>
> @match exists@
> expression x, E;
> identifier fld;
> @@
>
> * x->fld
> ... when != \(x = E\|&x\)
> * x == NULL
> // </smpl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied now.


Takashi

>
> ---
> sound/core/pcm.c | 5 +++--
> sound/drivers/dummy.c | 2 --
> sound/pci/ali5451/ali5451.c | 2 +-
>
> diff --git a/sound/core/pcm.c b/sound/core/pcm.c
> index 0c14401..c69c60b 100644
> --- a/sound/core/pcm.c
> +++ b/sound/core/pcm.c
> @@ -953,11 +953,12 @@ static int snd_pcm_dev_register(struct snd_device *device)
> struct snd_pcm_substream *substream;
> struct snd_pcm_notify *notify;
> char str[16];
> - struct snd_pcm *pcm = device->device_data;
> + struct snd_pcm *pcm;
> struct device *dev;
>
> - if (snd_BUG_ON(!pcm || !device))
> + if (snd_BUG_ON(!device || !device->device_data))
> return -ENXIO;
> + pcm = device->device_data;
> mutex_lock(&register_mutex);
> err = snd_pcm_add(pcm);
> if (err) {
> diff --git a/sound/drivers/dummy.c b/sound/drivers/dummy.c
> index 6ba066c..146ef00 100644
> --- a/sound/drivers/dummy.c
> +++ b/sound/drivers/dummy.c
> @@ -808,8 +808,6 @@ static int __devinit snd_card_dummy_new_mixer(struct snd_dummy *dummy)
> unsigned int idx;
> int err;
>
> - if (snd_BUG_ON(!dummy))
> - return -EINVAL;
> spin_lock_init(&dummy->mixer_lock);
> strcpy(card->mixername, "Dummy Mixer");
>
> diff --git a/sound/pci/ali5451/ali5451.c b/sound/pci/ali5451/ali5451.c
> index b458d20..aaf4da6 100644
> --- a/sound/pci/ali5451/ali5451.c
> +++ b/sound/pci/ali5451/ali5451.c
> @@ -973,7 +973,7 @@ static void snd_ali_free_voice(struct snd_ali * codec,
> void *private_data;
>
> snd_ali_printk("free_voice: channel=%d\n",pvoice->number);
> - if (pvoice == NULL || !pvoice->use)
> + if (!pvoice->use)
> return;
> snd_ali_clear_voices(codec, pvoice->number, pvoice->number);
> spin_lock_irq(&codec->voice_alloc);
>
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