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Message-ID: <500D90F9.7030909@wwwdotorg.org>
Date:	Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:59:21 -0600
From:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
To:	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>,
	Hiroshi Doyu <hdoyu@...dia.com>,
	"iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] drivers/iommu/tegra-smmu.c: remove invalid reference
 to list iterator variable

On 07/08/2012 05:37 AM, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>

Julia,

It looks like this patch hasn't seen any replies since you didn't CC the
maintainers of this code. I've CC'd them now.

> If list_for_each_entry, etc complete a traversal of the list, the iterator
> variable ends up pointing to an address at an offset from the list head,
> and not a meaningful structure.  Thus this value should not be used after
> the end of the iterator.  Replace c->dev by dev, which is the value that
> c->dev has been compared to.
> 
> This problem was found using Coccinelle (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>

Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
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