On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 11:37:18PM +0100, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
> There is otherwise a risk of a possible null pointer dereference.
>
> Was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqv...@spectrumdigital.se>
> ---
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/lproc_osc.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/lproc_osc.c
> b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/lproc_osc.c
> index 9f719bc..9ba6293 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/lproc_osc.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/lproc_osc.c
> @@ -237,13 +237,15 @@ static ssize_t osc_cur_grant_bytes_seq_write(struct
> file *file, const char *buff
> size_t count, loff_t *off)
> {
> struct obd_device *obd = ((struct seq_file
> *)file->private_data)->private;
> - struct client_obd *cli = &obd->u.cli;
> + struct client_obd *cli;
This isn't really a dereference. You're just getting the address of
obd->u.cli. So if obd is NULL then it won't crash.
regards,
dan carpenter
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