On Thursday 06 September 2012 05:52:30 Dan Carpenter wrote:
> I sent this email a year ago when the patch was committed but I
> never received a response.
I probably should have checked then.
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 10:34:59AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > Hello Konstantin Khlebnikov,
> >
> > This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings.
> >
> > The patch 23ba07991dad: "usbnet: fix oops in usbnet_start_xmit" from
> > Nov 7, 2011, leads to the following Smatch complaint:
> >
> > drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c +1077 usbnet_start_xmit()
> > error: we previously assumed 'skb' could be null (see line 1060)
> >
> > drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
> > 1059
> > 1060 if (skb)
> > ^^^
> > check introduced here.
> >
> > 1061 skb_tx_timestamp(skb);
> > 1062
> > 1063 // some devices want funky USB-level framing, for
> > 1064 // win32 driver (usually) and/or hardware quirks
> > 1065 if (info->tx_fixup) {
> > 1066 skb = info->tx_fixup (dev, skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
It turns out that skb == NULL implies info->tx_fixup != NULL
and skb will be reassigned.
This is very dirty.
Regards
Oliver
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