Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2010-05-24
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[patch] caif: remove unneeded null check in caif_connect()

From: Dan Carpenter <hidden>
Date: 2010-05-22 20:44:10
Also in: kernel-janitors, lkml
Subsystem: networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

We already dereferenced uaddr towards the start of the function when we
checked that "uaddr->sa_family != AF_CAIF".  Both the check here and the
earlier check were added in bece7b2398d0: "caif: Rewritten socket
implementation".  Before that patch, we assumed that we recieved a valid
pointer for uaddr, and based on that, I have removed this check.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <redacted>
diff --git a/net/caif/caif_socket.c b/net/caif/caif_socket.c
index c3a70c5..bd67bb3 100644
--- a/net/caif/caif_socket.c
+++ b/net/caif/caif_socket.c
@@ -890,8 +890,7 @@ static int caif_connect(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr,
 	sk_stream_kill_queues(&cf_sk->sk);
 
 	err = -EINVAL;
-	if (addr_len != sizeof(struct sockaddr_caif) ||
-		!uaddr)
+	if (addr_len != sizeof(struct sockaddr_caif))
 		goto out;
 
 	memcpy(&cf_sk->conn_req.sockaddr, uaddr,
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