Re: [PATCH 3/5 v3] drivers/hid/hid-roccat.c: eliminate a null pointer dereference

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On Sat, 29 Oct 2011, Julia Lawall wrote:

> It is not possible to take the lock in device if device is NULL.
> The mutex_lock is thus moved after the NULL test.  New error handling
> labels are added at the end to differentiate between the cases where
> different sets of locks should be unlocks, and between whether or not
> reader should be freed (only on error).
> 
> The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @r@
> expression E, E1;
> identifier f;
> statement S1,S2,S3;
> @@
> 
> if (E == NULL)
> {
>   ... when != if (E == NULL || ...) S1 else S2
>       when != E = E1
> *E->f
>   ... when any
>   return ...;
> }
> else S3
> // </smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

Applied, thank you.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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