Sorry! extremely stupid. Sending new patch immediately. Kind regards Rickard Strandqvist 2014-12-14 23:39 GMT+01:00 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 11:36:22PM +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_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> .../lustre/lustre/obdclass/lprocfs_status.c | 20 +++++++++----------- >> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lprocfs_status.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lprocfs_status.c >> index 61e04af..4a7891a 100644 >> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lprocfs_status.c >> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lprocfs_status.c >> @@ -1897,17 +1897,15 @@ int lprocfs_write_frac_u64_helper(const char *buffer, unsigned long count, >> } >> >> units = 1; >> - switch (*end) { >> - case 'p': case 'P': >> - units <<= 10; >> - case 't': case 'T': >> - units <<= 10; >> - case 'g': case 'G': >> - units <<= 10; >> - case 'm': case 'M': >> - units <<= 10; >> - case 'k': case 'K': >> - units <<= 10; >> + if (end) { >> + switch (*end) { >> + case 'p': case 'P': >> + case 't': case 'T': >> + case 'g': case 'G': >> + case 'm': case 'M': >> + case 'k': case 'K': >> + units <<= 10; >> + } > > You know you just changed the logic in the code, right? > > Why? Have you tested this? > > greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel