Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 3 authors, 2015-10-20

Re: [PATCH 1/2] NFC: delete null dereference

From: Samuel Ortiz <hidden>
Date: 2015-10-20 04:52:57
Also in: kernel-janitors, linux-wireless, lkml

Hi Julia,

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 11:32:19AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
The exit label performs device_unlock(&dev->dev);, which will fail when dev
is NULL, and nfc_put_device(dev);, which is not useful when dev is NULL, so
just exit the function immediately.

Problem found using scripts/coccinelle/null/deref_null.cocci

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <redacted>

---
 net/nfc/netlink.c |    6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Applied to nfc-next, thanks.

Cheers,
Samuel.
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