From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> In each case, if the NULL test is necessary, then the dereference should be moved below the NULL test. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @@ type T; expression E; identifier i,fld; statement S; @@ - T i = E->fld; + T i; ... when != E when != i if (E == NULL) S + i = E->fld; // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c index 0fa208e..1616884 100644 --- a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c +++ b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c @@ -86,12 +86,13 @@ static inline int ebt_do_match (struct ebt_entry_match *m, static inline int ebt_dev_check(char *entry, const struct net_device *device) { int i = 0; - const char *devname = device->name; + const char *devname; if (*entry == '\0') return 0; if (!device) return 1; + devname = device->name; /* 1 is the wildcard token */ while (entry[i] != '\0' && entry[i] != 1 && entry[i] == devname[i]) i++; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
