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; int rc; __u64 val; if (obd == NULL) return 0; + cli = &obd->u.cli; + rc = lprocfs_write_u64_helper(buffer, count, &val); if (rc) return rc; -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/