On Wed, 28 May 2014, Emil Goode wrote:
> The struct menelaus_vtg pointer vtg cannot be NULL here
> so the condition is never true and if it ever was true
> it would lead to a NULL pointer dereference when we goto
> label set_voltage.
>
> Before the below patch was applied the code was:
>
> if (vtg == 0)
>
> The intention was to check if vtg_val is 0.
>
> commit 59a9f7a32adf6537b4e4db8ca204eeb77d7a634e
> ("mfd: menelaus: Use NULL instead of 0")
>
> Signed-off-by: Emil Goode <[email protected]>
> ---
> Hello,
>
> This is only build tested, it would be good to get a comment
> from someone who is familiar with this code.
>
> Found using coccinelle.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Emil Goode
>
> drivers/mfd/menelaus.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/menelaus.c b/drivers/mfd/menelaus.c
> index ad25bfa..4859597 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/menelaus.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/menelaus.c
> @@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ static int menelaus_set_voltage(const struct menelaus_vtg
> *vtg, int mV,
> struct i2c_client *c = the_menelaus->client;
>
> mutex_lock(&the_menelaus->lock);
> - if (!vtg)
> + if (vtg_val == 0)
I would prefer:
if (!vtg_val)
> goto set_voltage;
>
> ret = menelaus_read_reg(vtg->vtg_reg);
--
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