linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/3] tpm: replace dynamically allocated bios

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Date:   Mon, 3 Oct 2016 15:21:35 +0300
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
Cc:     Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>,
        Nayna Jain <nayna@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Marcel Selhorst <tpmdd@...horst.net>,
        "moderated list:TPM DEVICE DRIVER" 
        <tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/3] tpm: replace dynamically allocated bios_dir
 with a static array

On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 03:28:01PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 10:25:25PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> 
> > +	for (i = (TPM_NUM_EVENT_LOG_FILES - 1); i >= 0; i--) {
> > +		if (chip->bios_dir[i])
> 
> The entries can't actually be null here, right?

They can because this function is called as a rollbcak procedure for
tpm_bios_log_setup.

> Jason

/Jarkko