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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] regulator: wm831x-dcdc: Use pointer after NULL check
On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 12:14:56PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 11:18:49AM +0100, Charles Keepax wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 01:27:09PM +0530, Maninder Singh wrote:
> > > pdata is used before NULL check, so it looks misleading.
>
> > The patch basically looks fine, but it feels a bit like needless
> > churn. The current code is perfectly correct and feels clear
> > enough to me.
>
> It's a bug - either the validation shouldn't be there or it needs to be
> before the use otherwise it does nothing.

ARRAY_SIZE being implemented with sizeof's means that no actual
dereference takes place. But if we have multiple people thinking
this looks buggy then I guess the code probably isn't clear
enough at the moment.

Acked-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

Thanks,
Charles


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