Re: [PATCH v2] net: liquidio: fix NULL pointer dereferences

[David Miller]

From: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:24:19 -0500

> In case octeon_alloc_soft_command fails, the fix reports the
> error and goes to cleanup to avoid NULL pointer dereferences.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> V2: goto setup_nic_dev_free for cleanup
> ---
>  drivers/mmc/host/mmc_spi.c                         |  2 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/mmc_spi.c b/drivers/mmc/host/mmc_spi.c
> index 32fea585262b..a3533935e282 100644
> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/mmc_spi.c
> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/mmc_spi.c
> @@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ mmc_spi_readblock(struct mmc_spi_host *host, struct spi_transfer *t,
>  
>  	status = spi_sync_locked(spi, &host->m);
>  	if (status < 0) {
> -		dev_dbg(&spi->dev, "read error %02x (%d)\n", status, status);
> +		dev_dbg(&spi->dev, "read error %d\n", status);
>  		return status;
>  	}

This is:

1) Unrelated to your bug fix.

2) It is often the case that people print values in hex and decimal
   intentionally for debugging.  I've done this myself countless
   times.