Re: [2.6 patch] w1_remove_master_device(): fix check-after-use

[Evgeniy Polyakov]

Hi Adrian.

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:22:48PM +0200, Adrian Bunk (bunk@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> The Coverity checker spotted that we'd have already oops'ed if "dev"
> was NULL.

This is wrong.
Although dev can not be null there there is no way it will crash.
The right paranoidal solution is to setup new pointer and make it equal
to the found device and check if it is NULL or not out of the loop.
I will cook up a patch tomorrow, thanks for pointing to this issue.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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