Re: [patch] CIFS: remove an unneeded NULL check

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merged into cifs-2.6.git

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Smatch complains because we dereference "ses->server" without checking
> some lines earlier inside the call to get_next_mid(ses->server).
>
>         fs/cifs/cifssmb.c:4921 CIFSGetDFSRefer()
>         warn: variable dereferenced before check 'ses->server' (see line 4899)
>
> There is only one caller for this function get_dfs_path() and it always
> passes a non-null "ses->server" pointer so this NULL check can be
> removed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
> index 1091aff..f26ffbf 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
> @@ -4918,7 +4918,7 @@ getDFSRetry:
>                 strncpy(pSMB->RequestFileName, search_name, name_len);
>         }
>
> -       if (ses->server && ses->server->sign)
> +       if (ses->server->sign)
>                 pSMB->hdr.Flags2 |= SMBFLG2_SECURITY_SIGNATURE;
>
>         pSMB->hdr.Uid = ses->Suid;
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Steve
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