Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Aug 2022 10:09:25 +0300 (EEST) | From | Ilpo Järvinen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] drivers/tty/serial: check the return value of uart_port_check() |
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On Sun, 28 Aug 2022, Li Zhong wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 9:01 AM Andy Shevchenko > <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 11:38 AM Li Zhong <floridsleeves@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > uart_port_check() will return NULL pointer when state->uart_port is > > > NULL. Check the return value before dereference it to avoid > > > null-pointer-dereference error. > > > > Have you taken the locking into consideration? > > If no, please do, if yes, expand your commit message to explain why > > the current locking scheme doesn't prevent an error from happening. > > > > The locking is taken into consideration but these three checks do not need to > unlock in error-handling because unlock() will be called in the callers. Will > add the comment in v2 patch.
I think he meant you should indicate why the current locking doesn't cover the case you're fixing, not whether this function should call unlock() or not.
-- i.
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