From: Julia Lawall Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:49:48 +0000 (+0200) Subject: drivers/ata: Move a dereference below a NULL test X-Git-Tag: v2.6.31-rc4~47^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1e1f421a8137824127a41303a30493356b5da638;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-stable.git drivers/ata: Move a dereference below a NULL test If the NULL test is necessary, then the dereference should be moved below the NULL test. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // @@ type T; expression E; identifier i,fld; statement S; @@ - T i = E->fld; + T i; ... when != E when != i if (E == NULL) S + i = E->fld; // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik --- diff --git a/drivers/ata/pata_at91.c b/drivers/ata/pata_at91.c index 4b27617..8561a9f 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/pata_at91.c +++ b/drivers/ata/pata_at91.c @@ -312,11 +312,12 @@ err_ide_ioremap: static int __devexit pata_at91_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) { struct ata_host *host = dev_get_drvdata(&pdev->dev); - struct at91_ide_info *info = host->private_data; + struct at91_ide_info *info; struct device *dev = &pdev->dev; if (!host) return 0; + info = host->private_data; ata_host_detach(host);