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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] kernel-shark: fix unitialized handle compile warnings
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:19:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1265213945.24386.2.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1265213851.24386.1.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>

On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 11:17 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> andle)
> > > -               handle = tracecmd_open(input_file);
> > > +       handle = tracecmd_open(input_file);
> > >
> > > -       info->handle = handle;
> > > +       if (handle)
> > > +               info->handle = handle;
> > >
> > >        /* --- Main window --- */
> > >
> > > --
> > 
> > This looks correct, but I'm wondering if it is safe to continue if the
> > call to tracecmd_open fails?
> 
> Actually this patch is wrong. The real code should be:
> 
> -	if (handle)
> +	if (input_file)

Looking at the context, this isn't enough. We should have had:

	if (input_file)
		info->handle = tracecmd_open(input_file);
	else
		info->handle = NULL;

-- Steve



  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-03 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-01 16:50 [PATCH 0/3 V2] trace-cmd: compiler warning fixes Darren Hart
2010-02-01 16:50 ` [PATCH 1/3] trace-graph: fix printf compile warnings Darren Hart
2010-02-01 16:50 ` [PATCH 2/3] trace-cmd: " Darren Hart
2010-02-03 16:07   ` John Kacur
2010-02-03 16:31     ` Steven Rostedt
2010-02-03 16:40       ` John Kacur
2010-02-03 17:12       ` Darren Hart
2010-02-03 17:21         ` Steven Rostedt
2010-02-01 16:50 ` [PATCH 3/3] kernel-shark: fix unitialized handle " Darren Hart
2010-02-03 16:05   ` John Kacur
2010-02-03 16:17     ` Steven Rostedt
2010-02-03 16:19       ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2010-02-03 16:42         ` John Kacur
2010-02-03 16:51           ` Steven Rostedt
2010-02-01 16:59 ` [PATCH 0/3 V2] trace-cmd: compiler warning fixes Darren Hart

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