Re: [PATCH] staging: lustre: lustre: obdclass: lprocfs_status.c: Fix for possible null pointer dereference

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Dec 15 2014 - 18:53:25 EST


On Mon, 2014-12-15 at 23:23 +0100, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
> Hi Joe

Hello Rickard

> No, it does not look like end can be NULL then.
> Then remove the end != NULL instead?
> ...
> if (end != NULL && *end == '.') {

Up to you.

> However, I am hesitant to the tolower() I think double case is faster...?

I doubt code execution speed is paramount here.
Maybe see if the object code size is smaller one
way or the other.


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