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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
To: Paolo Perego <pperego@suse.de>
Cc: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Dave Penkler <dpenkler@gmail.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Kees Bakker <kees@ijzerbout.nl>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging:gpib: Fix a dereference before null check issue
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 20:04:06 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a0807e04-b2c9-4261-9b3f-7660fe258f56@stanley.mountain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241120144653.377795-1-pperego@suse.de>

On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 03:46:53PM +0100, Paolo Perego wrote:
> This commit fixes a dereference before null check issue discovered by
> Coverity (CID 1601566).
> 
> The check ad line 1450 suggests that a_priv can be NULL, however it has
> been derefenced before, in the interface_to_usbdev() call.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Perego <pperego@suse.de>
> ---

You need a Fixes tag.  But I'm pretty sure the correct fix is to remove the NULL
check.

regards,
dan carpenter


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-11-20 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-20 14:46 Paolo Perego
2024-11-20 16:42 ` [PATCH] staging: gpib: " Markus Elfring
2024-11-20 17:04 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2024-11-20 19:54   ` [PATCH] staging:gpib: " Kees Bakker
2024-11-21  7:37     ` Dan Carpenter
2024-11-21 14:10       ` Paolo Perego
2024-11-21 14:17         ` Dan Carpenter

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