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Message-Id: <200708042032.12317.jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 20:32:12 +0200
From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Valerie Henson <val@....edu>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
tulip-users@...ts.sourceforge.net,
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>,
Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>, david@...g.hm,
Grant Grundler <grundler@...isc-linux.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Subject: [PATCH][RESEND] Semi-pointless NULL test in uli526x driver
(resending previously submitted patch from 16/7-2007 22:40)
Hi,
In drivers/net/tulip/uli526x.c::uli526x_interrupt() there's a test
of the function argument 'void *dev_id' against NULL. But that
test is pretty pointless, since if ever 'dev_id' is NULL we'll
already have crashed inside "netdev_priv(dev)".
I don't think dev_id can ever actually be NULL, so the whole block
inside "if (!dev) {" could probably just go away. But I guess
there's a good reason someone put that ULI526X_DBUG() in there - and
if 'dev_id' /can/ actually be NULL then it's nice to have and in
that case this patch actually fixes a possible crash (hence the
version number update).
So I guess that in this case we should just move the
"db = netdev_priv(dev)" assignment past that NULL test. That's what
this patch does.
Found by the Coverity checker.
Compile tested.
PS. Please keep me on Cc when replying.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
---
drivers/net/tulip/uli526x.c | 7 ++++---
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/tulip/uli526x.c b/drivers/net/tulip/uli526x.c
index ca2548e..3df2376 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tulip/uli526x.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tulip/uli526x.c
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
*/
#define DRV_NAME "uli526x"
-#define DRV_VERSION "0.9.3"
-#define DRV_RELDATE "2005-7-29"
+#define DRV_VERSION "0.9.4"
+#define DRV_RELDATE "2007-7-16"
#include <linux/module.h>
@@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ static int uli526x_stop(struct net_device *dev)
static irqreturn_t uli526x_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
{
struct net_device *dev = dev_id;
- struct uli526x_board_info *db = netdev_priv(dev);
+ struct uli526x_board_info *db;
unsigned long ioaddr = dev->base_addr;
unsigned long flags;
@@ -670,6 +670,7 @@ static irqreturn_t uli526x_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
ULI526X_DBUG(1, "uli526x_interrupt() without DEVICE arg", 0);
return IRQ_NONE;
}
+ db = netdev_priv(dev);
spin_lock_irqsave(&db->lock, flags);
outl(0, ioaddr + DCR7);
-
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