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From: "devendra.aaru" <devendra.aaru@gmail.com>
To: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <anton@tuxera.com>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fs/ntfs/super.c:2717:1-14: alloc with no test
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:42:12 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHdPZaNs99QLOD=-QeUvFj5soSJMZCPU24V=5QXuVWx0r1jC5g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120826090447.GA11098@localhost>

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Anton,
>
> FYI, coccinelle warns about
>
> fs/ntfs/super.c:2717:1-14: alloc with no test, possible model on line 2718
>
> vim +2717 fs/ntfs/super.c
>   2714          sb->s_flags |= MS_RDONLY;
>   2715  #endif /* ! NTFS_RW */
>   2716          /* Allocate a new ntfs_volume and place it in sb->s_fs_info. */
>> 2717          sb->s_fs_info = kmalloc(sizeof(ntfs_volume), GFP_NOFS);

That's i think a false alarm.

>   2718          vol = NTFS_SB(sb);

The NTFS_SB(buf) {
      buf->s_fs_info;
 }

so we are validating the allocated pointer s_fs_info.

correct me if i am wrong.

Thanks,

>   2719          if (!vol) {
>   2720                  if (!silent)
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-26  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-26  9:04 fs/ntfs/super.c:2717:1-14: alloc with no test Fengguang Wu
2012-08-26  9:12 ` devendra.aaru [this message]
2012-08-26  9:31   ` Fengguang Wu

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