Re: [PATCH] mm: hugetlb: checking for IS_ERR() instead of NULL

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On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 05:23:46PM -0400, Nigel Christian wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 11:50:06PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 10:51:23PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > The other thing which might be interesting is if you pass a NULL
> > > to IS_ERR() and then dereference the NULL then print a warning about
> > > that.  This has a lot of overlaps with some of my existing checks, but
> > > it's still a new idea so it belongs in a separate check.  It's fine and
> > > good even if one bug triggers a lot of different warnings.  I'll write
> > > that, hang on, brb.
> > 
> > 100% untested.  :)  I'll test it tonight.
> 
> Ha, you make it look easy. Let me know if I can help with testing
> Should I just add below to my smatch and recompile,
> or is there an experimental branch to build from?
> 

Yeah.  :)  Copy and paste that to check_null_deref_after_IS_ERR.c and
add it to the check_list.h file then recompile.

regards,
dan carpenter




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