Hey Andrew,

thanks for forwarding! I've commited a patch, revision 1527, which should
fix these things. See some comments inline below.

best regards,
        Simon


On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 06:07:53PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> ***dev->dev_addr is a pointer.  The size of an address is probably 6.  dev
> has an addr_len field that might be initialized.

fixed in r1527.

> *** Use kzalloc instead of kmalloc + memset.  Also consider testing the result
> of the kmaloc for NULL.

kzalloc is a good suggestion, done in r1527.
kmalloc checking should be fixed in r1520, r1521, r1524.

> *** As far as I can tell, in the following, the if after the out label is not
> needed.

correct, this was already fixed in r1493.
 
> *** the result of kmalloc should be tested for NULL

correct, but not needed anymore as we have changed to static initialization in 
r1499.

> diff -u -p 
> /var/linuxes/linux-next/drivers/staging/batman-adv/translation-table.c 
> /tmp/nothing
> --- /var/linuxes/linux-next/drivers/staging/batman-adv/translation-table.c    
> 2009-12-19 09:38:58.000000000 +0100
> @@ -322,7 +322,6 @@ void hna_global_add_orig(struct orig_nod
>       if (orig_node->hna_buff_len > 0) {
>               orig_node->hna_buff = kmalloc(orig_node->hna_buff_len,
>                                             GFP_ATOMIC);
> -             memcpy(orig_node->hna_buff, hna_buff, orig_node->hna_buff_len);
>       } else {
>               orig_node->hna_buff = NULL;
>       }
this one again: kmalloc checking should be fixed in r1520, r1521, r1524.

> 
> returns.cocci
> 
> *** Perhaps there is no point to put a return by itself at the end of a
> function.

okay, done in r1527.
> 
> diff -u -p a/routing.c b/routing.c
> --- a/routing.c 2009-12-19 09:38:58.000000000 +0100
> +++ b/routing.c 2009-12-31 14:59:41.000000000 +0100
> @@ -627,7 +626,6 @@ static void recv_my_icmp_packet(struct e
>       }
>  
>       spin_unlock(&orig_hash_lock);
> -     return;
>  }

I did not find this return (probably due to the skb restructuring),
but all the other useless returns; should be gone now (r1527).

>  
>  static void recv_icmp_ttl_exceeded(struct icmp_packet *icmp_packet,
> 
> txok.cocci
> 
> *** I saw in some patch that functions store in the field .ndo_start_xmit
> ought to return NETDEV_TX_OK rather than 0.  I haven't submitted any patches
> of my own for this situation, so I don't know for sure what the rule is.
> 

OK, most drivers seem to do this, so we'll do the same (r1527)

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