On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 04:50:31PM +0200, Dan Carpenter wrote: > If "p" is NULL then it will cause an oops when we pass it to > simple_strtoul(). In this case "p" can not be NULL so I removed the > check. I also changed the check a little to make it more explicit that > we are testing whether p points to the NUL char. > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > V2: Added some parenthesis to make the precedence more clear. > > diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example_explicit.c b/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example_explicit.c > index d428cc9..63ff248 100644 > --- a/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example_explicit.c > +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example_explicit.c > @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ static ssize_t childless_storeme_write(struct childless *childless, > char *p = (char *) page; > > tmp = simple_strtoul(p, &p, 10); > - if (!p || (*p && (*p != '\n'))) > + if ((*p != '\0') && (*p != '\n')) > return -EINVAL; > > if (tmp > INT_MAX) > -- "Sometimes I think the surest sign intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." -Calvin & Hobbes Joel Becker Senior Development Manager Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@xxxxxxxxxx Phone: (650) 506-8127 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html