linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [XFRM]: Don't dereference error pointer dst1

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Message-Id: <20100929.134952.15245176.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:49:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	roel.kluin@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [XFRM]: Don't dereference error pointer dst1

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:45:13 +0200

> This is not a dereference, but a cast from "struct xfrm_dst *" to
> "struct dst_entry *"

Right, please teach whatever tool caught this that taking an address
of a member of an object referenced by pointer is not an error like a
true dereference is.
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