On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:40:31 +0300 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 07:29:49PM +0530, Ajay Singh wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 02:13:53 +0800 > > kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > The patch only change variable names to avoid the camelCase, didn't modify any extra code to dereference memory. > > You are responding to a robot and I think we all understood that this > warning was there before you renamed the variables. > Thanks, got it. > > I think, with the use of shorter variable name now memcpy() is taking 1 line instead of 3 lines. So, now line 937 has different code line(as code is swifted up by few lines).So because of that new potential NULL dereference error is popped up for same existing code. > > The code to validate dynamically allocated memory before access, will be include in separate patch to keep it segregated from variable names changes. > > I will rework on this patch and resend again. > > There is no need to re-work the patch. > Few of the patches for patch series are accepted and submitted to "linux-next". For now, will submit the a new patch series by including the remaining patches (changing commit subject line to avoid confusion from previous patches). > You are right that the NULL check should be added as a separate check. > > regards, > dan carpenter > Regards, Ajay
