[PATCH 6/9] staging: rtl8192e: Fix smatch warning in rtl819x_BAProc.c

Dan Carpenter error27 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 30 17:31:18 UTC 2011


On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:53:06AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> Smatch outputs the following warning:
> 
>   CHECK   drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_BAProc.c
> drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_BAProc.c +88 rtllib_ADDBA(12) warn: variable dereferenced before check 'ieee'
> 
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_BAProc.c |    6 +++++-
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_BAProc.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_BAProc.c
> index 48f9f71..914bdcd 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_BAProc.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_BAProc.c
> @@ -81,7 +81,11 @@ static struct sk_buff *rtllib_ADDBA(struct rtllib_device *ieee, u8 *Dst,
>  	 struct rtllib_hdr_3addr *BAReq = NULL;
>  	u8 *tag = NULL;
>  	u16 tmp = 0;
> -	u16 len = ieee->tx_headroom + 9;
> +	u16 len;
> +
> +	if (!ieee)
> +		return NULL;

There is a second check for NULL later in the function that can be
removed as well.

> +	len = ieee->tx_headroom + 9;
>  	RTLLIB_DEBUG(RTLLIB_DL_TRACE | RTLLIB_DL_BA, "========>%s(), frame(%d)"
>  		     " sentd to: %pM, ieee->dev:%p\n", __func__,
>  		     type, Dst, ieee->dev);

regards,
dan carpenter




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