linux-kernel - Re: [patch] caif: remove unneeded null check in caif

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Date:	Mon, 31 May 2010 00:32:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sjurbren@...il.com
Cc:	error27@...il.com, sjur.brandeland@...ricsson.com,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] caif: remove unneeded null check in caif_connect()

From: Sjur Brændeland <sjurbren@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 21:56:01 +0200

> Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com> wrote:
>> We already dereferenced uaddr towards the start of the function when we
>> checked that "uaddr->sa_family != AF_CAIF".  Both the check here and the
>> earlier check were added in bece7b2398d0: "caif: Rewritten socket
>> implementation".  Before that patch, we assumed that we recieved a valid
>> pointer for uaddr, and based on that, I have removed this check.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
> Thanks Looks good,
> Acked-by: Sjur Braendeland <sjur.brandeland@...ricsson.com>

Applied.
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