From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 12:37:19 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Staging: Eliminate a NULL pointer dereference
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.35-rc2~14^2~2
X-Git-Url: http://bbs.cooldavid.org/git/?p=net-next-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=c60e55f30a4dac15db51b398c3bd94e4cfbf743a

Staging: Eliminate a NULL pointer dereference

Eliminate a NULL or near NULL pointer dereference.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@r exists@
expression E,E1;
identifier f;
statement S1,S2,S3;
@@

if ((E == NULL && ...) || ...)
{
  ... when != if (...) S1 else S2
      when != E = E1
* E->f
  ... when any
  return ...;
}
else S3
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/usbdux.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/usbdux.c
index 86f035d0067..27b4cb2e2ec 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/usbdux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/usbdux.c
@@ -351,8 +351,7 @@ static int usbdux_ai_stop(struct usbduxsub *this_usbduxsub, int do_unlink)
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	if (!this_usbduxsub) {
-		dev_err(&this_usbduxsub->interface->dev,
-			"comedi?: usbdux_ai_stop: this_usbduxsub=NULL!\n");
+		pr_err("comedi?: usbdux_ai_stop: this_usbduxsub=NULL!\n");
 		return -EFAULT;
 	}
 	dev_dbg(&this_usbduxsub->interface->dev, "comedi: usbdux_ai_stop\n");
diff --git a/drivers/staging/dt3155/allocator.c b/drivers/staging/dt3155/allocator.c
index bd5adbc2a23..d33947b0378 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/dt3155/allocator.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/dt3155/allocator.c
@@ -176,9 +176,7 @@ int allocator_free_dma(unsigned long address)
 	prev = ptr; ptr = ptr->next;
 
 	if (!ptr) {
-		printk(KERN_ERR ALL_MSG
-			"free_dma(0x%08lx) but add. not allocated\n",
-			ptr->address);
+		pr_err(ALL_MSG "free_dma but add. not allocated\n");
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 	PDEBUGG("freeing: %08lx (%li) next %08lx\n", ptr->address, ptr->size,