Re: [PATCH 1/2] NFC: delete null dereference

From: Samuel Ortiz
Date: Tue Oct 20 2015 - 00:53:01 EST


Hi Julia,

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 11:32:19AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> The exit label performs device_unlock(&dev->dev);, which will fail when dev
> is NULL, and nfc_put_device(dev);, which is not useful when dev is NULL, so
> just exit the function immediately.
>
> Problem found using scripts/coccinelle/null/deref_null.cocci
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> net/nfc/netlink.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Applied to nfc-next, thanks.

Cheers,
Samuel.
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