Re: [RESEND PATCHv2] misc: cxl: Fix possible null pointer dereference

From: Andrew Donnellan
Date: Thu Oct 04 2018 - 07:59:17 EST


On 4/10/18 3:02 pm, zhong jiang wrote:
It is not safe to dereference an object before a null test. It is
not needed and just remove them. Ftrace can be used instead.

Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@xxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/misc/cxl/guest.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/cxl/guest.c b/drivers/misc/cxl/guest.c
index 3bc0c15..5d28d9e 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/cxl/guest.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/guest.c
@@ -1018,8 +1018,6 @@ int cxl_guest_init_afu(struct cxl *adapter, int slice, struct device_node *afu_n
void cxl_guest_remove_afu(struct cxl_afu *afu)
{
- pr_devel("in %s - AFU(%d)\n", __func__, afu->slice);
-
if (!afu)
return;


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Andrew Donnellan OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan@xxxxxxxxxxx IBM Australia Limited