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From: Li Wei <lw@cn•fujitsu.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle•com>,
	netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] IPv6: Fix Smatch warning.
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:58:07 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F58041F.5060209@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)


With commit d6ddef9e641d(IPv6: Fix not join all-router mcast group
when forwarding set.) I check 'dev' after it's dereference that
leads to a Smatch complaint:

net/ipv6/addrconf.c:438 ipv6_add_dev()
	 warn: variable dereferenced before check 'dev' (see line 432)

net/ipv6/addrconf.c
   431		/* protected by rtnl_lock */
   432		rcu_assign_pointer(dev->ip6_ptr, ndev);
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Old dereference.

   433
   434		/* Join all-node multicast group */
   435		ipv6_dev_mc_inc(dev, &in6addr_linklocal_allnodes);
   436
   437		/* Join all-router multicast group if forwarding is set
*/
   438		if (ndev->cnf.forwarding && dev && (dev->flags &
IFF_MULTICAST))
                                            ^^^

Remove the check to avoid the complaint as 'dev' can't be NULL.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle•com>
Signed-off-by: Li Wei <lw@cn•fujitsu.com>
---
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 6b8ebc5..6a3bb60 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ static struct inet6_dev * ipv6_add_dev(struct net_device *dev)
 	ipv6_dev_mc_inc(dev, &in6addr_linklocal_allnodes);
 
 	/* Join all-router multicast group if forwarding is set */
-	if (ndev->cnf.forwarding && dev && (dev->flags & IFF_MULTICAST))
+	if (ndev->cnf.forwarding && (dev->flags & IFF_MULTICAST))
 		ipv6_dev_mc_inc(dev, &in6addr_linklocal_allrouters);
 
 	return ndev;
-- 
1.7.1

             reply	other threads:[~2012-03-08  1:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-08  0:58 Li Wei [this message]
2012-03-11 22:57 ` [PATCH] IPv6: Fix Smatch warning David Miller

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