Re: [PATCH 1/2] clk: versatile: test returned value

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Thu Apr 09 2015 - 03:30:57 EST


On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Put NULL test on the result of the previous call instead on one of its
> arguments. A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this
> problem is as follows (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/):
>
> // <smpl>
> r@
> expression *e1;
> expression *e2;
> identifier f;
> statement S1,S2;
> @@
>
> e1 = f(...,e2,...);
> (
> if (e1 == NULL || ...) S1 else S2
> |
> *if (e2 == NULL || ...) S1 else S2
> )
> // </smpl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>

Yep that's a bug:
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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