Am 22.08.2011 21:02, schrieb Bing Zhao:

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Hi Julia,

Thanks for the patch.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Julia Lawall [mailto:julia-dAYI7NvHqcQ@public.gmane.org]
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 7:16 AM
To: Pierre Louis Aublin
Cc: Bing Zhao; kernel-janitors-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org; John W. Linville; linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org;
netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org; linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c: test the just-initialized value

From: Julia Lawall <redacted>

Test the just-initialized value rather than some other one.

The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@r@
identifier x,y,f!={PTR_ERR,ERR_PTR,ERR_CAST};
statement S;
@@

x = f(...);
(
if (\(x == NULL\|IS_ERR(x)\)) S
|
*if (\(y == NULL\|IS_ERR(y)\))
 { ... when != x
   return ...; }
)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <redacted>

Acked-by: Bing Zhao <redacted>


Thanks,
Bing

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---
 drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c
index b28241c..37ca2f9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c

@@ -1480,8 +1480,8 @@ mwifiex_update_curr_bss_params(struct mwifiex_private *priv,
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 	beacon_ie = kzalloc(ie_len, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!bss_desc) {
-		dev_err(priv->adapter->dev, " failed to alloc bss_desc\n");
+	if (!beacon_ie) {
+		dev_err(priv->adapter->dev, " failed to alloc beacon_ie\n");
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 	memcpy(beacon_ie, ie_buf, ie_len);

--

this looks like a case for kmemdup()

Hi Walter,

You are right. I believe there are some more cases where kmemdup can be used.

Hi John,

Please apply Julia's patch as I will send a separate patch later to address Walter's comment. Thanks.

just my 2 cents,

Thanks a lot for your 2 cents.

Bing

re,
 wh

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