On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 06:18:01PM +0000, Rustad, Mark D wrote: > On Jul 29, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > "ifa->ifa_label" is an array inside the in_ifaddr struct. It can never > > be NULL so we can remove this check. > > > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c > > index 8d48c39..1b7f7ae 100644 > > --- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c > > +++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c > > @@ -1124,10 +1124,7 @@ static int inet_gifconf(struct net_device *dev, char __user *buf, int len) > > if (len < (int) sizeof(ifr)) > > break; > > memset(&ifr, 0, sizeof(struct ifreq)); > > - if (ifa->ifa_label) > > Is there any possibility that this was meant to check ifa->ifa_label[0]? It has been this way for almost 16 years and no one has complained. I should have put that into the changelog though, you are right. regards, dan carpenter -- 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