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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:42:00 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> To: Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: char/cyclades.c: inconsequent NULL checking On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 09:12:23PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > > > The Coverity checker spotted the following inconsequent NULL checking in > > Where can one obtain such a checker? > > That's a commercial proprietary thingie. > > http://www.coverity.com/ A bit more of background: The US Department of Homeland Security pays them some money for scanning open source projects, the Linux kernel is one of these projects, and kernel developers can therefore get access to the database with the results from their regular scans of Linus' tree. I'm not a fan of proprietary software, but I'm simply considering their results as bug reports that are worth looking at. > Jiri Kosina cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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