lttng lib: ring buffer: remove stale null-pointer
authorMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:34:14 +0000 (13:34 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 1 Dec 2011 17:37:47 +0000 (09:37 -0800)
commit2f8e0b31ad257bca9ff5dda9fdfdcc98d38d97f8
tree2f32febd39efc22ecf864c3f8539dadbb2bcaad0
parent976d534118219b04277fb6cfcdb71607b730746d
lttng lib: ring buffer: remove stale null-pointer

* Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
[...]
> The patch c844b2f5cfea: "lttng lib: ring buffer" from Nov 28, 2011,
> leads to the following Smatch complaint:
>
> drivers/staging/lttng/lib/ringbuffer/ring_buffer_frontend.c +1150
> +lib_ring_buffer_print_buffer_errors()
>          warn: variable dereferenced before check 'chan' (see line 1143)
>
> drivers/staging/lttng/lib/ringbuffer/ring_buffer_frontend.c
>   1142  {
>   1143          const struct lib_ring_buffer_config *config =
> +chan->backend.config;
>
> +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Dereference.
>
>   1144          unsigned long write_offset, cons_offset;
>   1145
>   1146          /*
>   1147           * Can be called in the error path of allocation when
>   1148           * trans_channel_data is not yet set.
>   1149           */
>   1150          if (!chan)
>                 ^^^^^^^^^
> Check.  At first glance the comment seems out of date, I think check can
> be removed safely.
>
>   1151                  return;
>   1152          /*

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/staging/lttng/lib/ringbuffer/ring_buffer_frontend.c