Re: [PATCH 6/7] drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/cnic.c: removeinvalid reference to list iterator variable

[David Miller]

From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun,  8 Jul 2012 13:37:43 +0200

> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>
> 
> If list_for_each_entry, etc complete a traversal of the list, the iterator
> variable ends up pointing to an address at an offset from the list head,
> and not a meaningful structure.  Thus this value should not be used after
> the end of the iterator.  There does not seem to be a meaningful value to
> provide to netdev_warn.  Replace with pr_warn, since pr_err is used
> elsewhere.
> 
> This problem was found using Coccinelle (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>

Applied.
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