linux-kernel - Re: video: au1100fb: Move a variable assignment behind a null pointer check in au1100fb

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Message-ID: <e9372f7e-cefb-4f8a-9dbd-b26baceb0d3a@web.de>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 18:28:56 +0100
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Helge Deller <deller@....de>, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>,
 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...libre.com>,
 kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
 dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@....net>, Thomas Zimmermann
 <tzimmermann@...e.de>, Yihao Han <hanyihao@...o.com>, cocci@...ia.fr,
 LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: video: au1100fb: Move a variable assignment behind a null pointer
 check in au1100fb_setmode()

> No crash or anything can or will happen here.
>
> Markus, maybe you missed the "&" in front of "&fbdev->info" ?
Would you get into the mood to adjust development views
if you would take any feedback and further background information
(by David Svoboda for example) better into account?
https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/EXP34-C.+Do+not+dereference+null+pointers?focusedCommentId=405504139#comment-405504139

Regards,
Markus