fs/debugfs/inode.c: thoughts about "CID 101681 Dereference after null check"

2014-04-12 Thread Toralf Förster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Just for fun (and to learn a little bit) I picked up an arbitrary entry from coverity [1] : CID 101681 Dereference after null check Either the check against null is unnecessary, or there may be a null pointer dereference.

fs/debugfs/inode.c: thoughts about CID 101681 Dereference after null check

2014-04-12 Thread Toralf Förster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Just for fun (and to learn a little bit) I picked up an arbitrary entry from coverity [1] : CID 101681 Dereference after null check Either the check against null is unnecessary, or there may be a null pointer dereference.