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SubjectRe: drivers/net/chelsio/my3126.c: inconsequent NULL checking
On 07/12/06, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> The Coverity checker spotted the following inconsequent NULL checking
> introduced by commit f1d3d38af75789f1b82969b83b69cab540609789:
>
> <-- snip -->
>
> ...
> static struct cphy *my3126_phy_create(adapter_t *adapter,
> int phy_addr, struct mdio_ops *mdio_ops)
> {
> struct cphy *cphy = kzalloc(sizeof (*cphy), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> if (cphy)
> cphy_init(cphy, adapter, phy_addr, &my3126_ops, mdio_ops);
>
> INIT_WORK(&cphy->phy_update, my3216_poll, cphy);
> cphy->bmsr = 0;
>
> return (cphy);
> }
> ...
>
> <-- snip -->
>
> It doesn't make sense to first check whether "cphy" is NULL and
> dereference it unconditionally later.
>

How about simply changing
if (cphy)
cphy_init(cphy, adapter, phy_addr, &my3126_ops, mdio_ops);
into
if (!cphy)
return NULL;

callers need to be able to handle that ofcourse, but I haven't checked that yet.

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