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authorJulia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>2012-08-14 05:49:47 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-08-14 16:59:43 -0700
commitf37c54b6a6c56489221d42ff27305e4f8098e34b (patch)
tree5c0d7a6e98f10860dbfeffddf1bd5bd5e245b7e6 /drivers/net/ethernet
parentaadf31de16a7b2878af00a02e6557df84efa784b (diff)
drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_cpdma.c: Remove potential NULL dereference
If the NULL test is necessary, the initialization involving a dereference of the tested value should be moved after the NULL test. The sematic patch that fixes this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ type T; expression E; identifier i,fld; statement S; @@ - T i = E->fld; + T i; ... when != E when != i if (E == NULL) S + i = E->fld; // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_cpdma.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_cpdma.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_cpdma.c
index 3b5c4571b55e..d15c888e9df8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_cpdma.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_cpdma.c
@@ -538,11 +538,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpdma_chan_create);
int cpdma_chan_destroy(struct cpdma_chan *chan)
{
- struct cpdma_ctlr *ctlr = chan->ctlr;
+ struct cpdma_ctlr *ctlr;
unsigned long flags;
if (!chan)
return -EINVAL;
+ ctlr = chan->ctlr;
spin_lock_irqsave(&ctlr->lock, flags);
if (chan->state != CPDMA_STATE_IDLE)