[PATCH 4/6] drivers/net/fs_enet: remove null pointer dereference
Francois Romieu
romieu at fr.zoreil.com
Tue May 13 02:51:42 EST 2008
Julia Lawall <julia at diku.dk> :
[...]
> diff -u -p a/drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c b/drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
> --- a/drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c 2008-04-27 11:41:11.000000000 +0200
> +++ b/drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c 2008-05-12 09:41:52.000000000 +0200
> @@ -1093,7 +1093,7 @@ err:
> if (registered)
> unregister_netdev(ndev);
>
> - if (fep != NULL) {
> + if (fep && fep->ops) {
> (*fep->ops->free_bd)(ndev);
> (*fep->ops->cleanup_data)(ndev);
> }
Extra cookies for the nice soul who:
- removes the 'if (registered)' test (it can not happen)
- uses different error lablels and unrolls the error path. I can not claim
that the current error path is wrong but it would not hurt if it was more
trivially balanced.
--
Ueimor
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