linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers:wireless: Fix a dereference before null check issue

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Message-ID: <e37392a6a1fcb11db42646da2afe055416ca4cea.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:28:14 +0100
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To: Paolo Perego <pperego@...e.de>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@...el.com>, Kalle Valo
 <kvalo@...nel.org>, Shaul Triebitz <shaul.triebitz@...el.com>, Emmanuel
 Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>, Yedidya Benshimol
 <yedidya.ben.shimol@...el.com>,  Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers:wireless: Fix a dereference before null check
 issue

On Thu, 2024-11-21 at 18:02 +0100, Paolo Perego wrote:
> This patch fixes a dereference before null check issue discovered by 
> Coverity (CID 1601547)
> 

This was reported before by smatch too, and Emmanuel just made a patch
to simply remove the NULL checks, because the pointers are statically
known to be not NULL. So it's not really an issue other than
style/checkers/... anyway :)

johannes