Hej Jesper! But in several other place in the feature ensures that main_mtd is not NULL. (That's what cppcheck base their misjudgment on too)
Then all these checks are unnecessary? You should know, looks like you've written most of the code in 2007 :) Best regards Rickard Strandqvist 2014-05-23 9:00 GMT+02:00 Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nils...@axis.com>: > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 12:00:09AM +0200, Rickard Strandqvist wrote: >> Cleaning up inconsistent NULL checks. >> There is otherwise a risk of a possible null pointer dereference. >> >> Was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck. > > ... and is a false positive. > > We can't enter this if-block unless ptable_head is set, > which is only set if main_mtd is set. > > It might be useful to add it anyways, but there's a refactoring > needed for the axisflashmaps, so I'll keep it for then. > > /^JN - Jesper Nilsson > -- > Jesper Nilsson -- jesper.nils...@axis.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/