Eh, what is this for?: static inline void *acpi_driver_data(struct acpi_device *d) { return d->driver_data; } On Thursday 11 February 2010 10:56:51 Darren Jenkins wrote: > There are a few places where a pointer is dereferenced with acpi_driver_data() > before a NULL test. This re-orders the code to fix these issues. > > Coverity CID: 2752 2751 2750 > > Signed-off-by: Darren Jenkins <darrenrjenkins@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/acpi/processor_thermal.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++-------- > 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_thermal.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_thermal.c > index 6deafb4..ec33554 100644 > --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_thermal.c > +++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_thermal.c > @@ -379,9 +379,14 @@ processor_get_max_state(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev, > unsigned long *state) > { > struct acpi_device *device = cdev->devdata; > - struct acpi_processor *pr = acpi_driver_data(device); > + struct acpi_processor *pr; > > - if (!device || !pr) > + if (!device) > + return -EINVAL; > + > + pr = acpi_driver_data(device); Better use (here and at other places): device->driver_data instead of acpi_driver_data(device) if you touch this anyway. Then such bugs like the one you address here, don't happen anymore in the future. If you have some more time you might want to revert all the other instances and revert the acpi_driver_data declaration in include/acpi/acpi_bus.h Thanks, Thomas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html