Re: [PATCH 057/144] usb: musb: gadget: prevent a NULL pointer dereference

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On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 14:43 -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> What happens if somebody in the future adds another member to the 
> musb_request structure in front of the .request member?

that's exactly my point.

> Felipe's change is simply good programming practice (although the patch 
> description could be improved).

yeah, I agree. My bad.

> > > $ dmesg
> > > [1385484.405684] ===>  f (0000000c) is NULL
> > 
> >     Hm, interesting...
> 
> Not as interesting as it may appear.  The test is backward, so the fact
> that the program printed out "is NULL" means the computer thinks f
> really is not NULL.

Oops, missed the ! in front of f, so here it is:

$ dmesg
[1397031.963264] ===> f (0000000c) is not NULL

So in both cases, the pointer will be considered valid and the gadget
driver will fail.

-- 
balbi

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