Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2010-05-27
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[PATCH 4/11] drivers/net/hamradio: Eliminate a NULL pointer dereference

From: Julia Lawall <hidden>
Date: 2010-05-27 12:33:09
Also in: kernel-janitors, linux-hams, lkml
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Julia Lawall <redacted>

At the point of the print, dev is NULL.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@r exists@
expression E,E1;
identifier f;
statement S1,S2,S3;
@@

if ((E == NULL && ...) || ...)
{
  ... when != if (...) S1 else S2
      when != E = E1
* E->f
  ... when any
  return ...;
}
else S3
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <redacted>

---
 drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c b/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c
index 694132e..4e7d1d0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c
@@ -1151,8 +1151,7 @@ static int __init yam_init_driver(void)
 		dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof(struct yam_port), name,
 				   yam_setup);
 		if (!dev) {
-			printk(KERN_ERR "yam: cannot allocate net device %s\n",
-			       dev->name);
+			pr_err("yam: cannot allocate net device\n");
 			err = -ENOMEM;
 			goto error;
 		}
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