netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] net: hns: avoid null pointer dereference

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Date:	Mon, 23 May 2016 13:55:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xypron.glpk@....de
Cc:	David.Laight@...lab.com, Yisen.Zhuang@...wei.com,
	yankejian@...wei.com, lisheng011@...wei.com, andrew@...n.ch,
	salil.mehta@...wei.com, ivecera@...hat.com, chenny.xu@...wei.com,
	huangdaode@...ilicon.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] net: hns: avoid null pointer dereference

From: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@....de>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 21:20:55 +0200

> In the statement
>   assert(priv || priv->ae_handle);
> the right side of || is only evaluated if priv is null.
> 
> v2:
> 	As suggested by David Leight and David Miller the assert
> 	statements are removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@....de>

Applied.