Re: fib_trie: Add tnode struct as a container for fields not needed in key_vector

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On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 02:19:48PM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> 
> On 03/10/2015 02:04 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> >Hello Alexander Duyck,
> >
> >The patch dc35dbeda3e0: "fib_trie: Add tnode struct as a container
> >for fields not needed in key_vector" from Mar 6, 2015, leads to the
> >following static checker warnings:
> >
> >net/ipv4/fib_trie.c:330 leaf_new() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'kv' (see line 328)
> >net/ipv4/fib_trie.c:358 tnode_new() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'tnode' (see line 350)
> 
> These two I am aware of, they are both false errors.  I am not
> actually dereferencing so much as getting a pointer to an offset
> inside the structure.  Think of it as an inverse offsetof().

Oh, right.  I always forget about this possibility.  I'll see if I can
fix the checker to not warn about these.

regards,
dan carpenter

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