From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933333Ab2BBTj7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2012 14:39:59 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:44947 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933268Ab2BBTj4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2012 14:39:56 -0500 Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:37:49 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20120202.143749.209790216360616297.davem@davemloft.net> To: Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3 v2] drivers/net/ethernet/ti: Move call to PTR_ERR after reassignment From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1328194382-32465-3-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> References: <1328194382-32465-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> <1328194382-32465-3-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.4 on Emacs 23.3 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:37:51 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Julia Lawall Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 15:53:01 +0100 > From: Julia Lawall > > PTR_ERR should be called before its argument is cleared. > > The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: > (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) ... > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall > Reported-by: Josh Triplett Applied, thanks.