Re: [PATCH v8 03/13] phy: tegra: xusb: Move usb3 port init for Tegra210

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 07:42:53PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:

Hi Thierry,

On 25-03-21, 17:40, Thierry Reding wrote:

quoted

+static struct tegra_xusb_usb3_port *
+tegra210_lane_to_usb3_port(struct tegra_xusb_lane *lane)
+{
+	int port;
+
+	if (!lane || !lane->pad || !lane->pad->padctl)
+		return NULL;

This looks problematic to me, so if lane is NULL, it will still go ahead
and check lane->pad which would result in NULL pointer dereference.

No, this isn't going to result in a NULL pointer dereference because the
compiler will short-circuit this if the first expression is true. If the
lane parameter is NULL, then the entire expression is going to be true
no matter what lane->pad and lane->pad->padctl evaluate to (because of
the logical OR) and hence the compiler knows that it can skip the rest.

This is a fairly common construct in kernel code.

Thierry