Strongly agreed that execution speed is not critical here. It's the update of a proc variable, not a tight loop or critical section. Normally I'd leave it alone, but since you're writing a patch anyway, I'd do 'tolower' myself. I dislike the stacked case statements on a single line like that. (It's the only time I've seen them written that way. Perhaps it's common and I've just missed it.) Regards, - Patrick ________________________________________ From: HPDD-discuss [hpdd-discuss-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Joe Perches [joe@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 5:53 PM To: Rickard Strandqvist Cc: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Fabian Frederick; Julia Lawall; James Simmons; Greg Kroah-Hartman; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Greg Donald; HPDD-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxx; Andriy Skulysh Subject: Re: [HPDD-discuss] [PATCH] staging: lustre: lustre: obdclass: lprocfs_status.c: Fix for possible null pointer dereference On Mon, 2014-12-15 at 23:23 +0100, Rickard Strandqvist wrote: > Hi Joe Hello Rickard > No, it does not look like end can be NULL then. > Then remove the end != NULL instead? > ... > if (end != NULL && *end == '.') { Up to you. > However, I am hesitant to the tolower() I think double case is faster...? I doubt code execution speed is paramount here. Maybe see if the object code size is smaller one way or the other. _______________________________________________ HPDD-discuss mailing list HPDD-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/hpdd-discuss _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel