On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:00:54 +0100 Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tom Walter Dillig wrote: > > [109] > > 452 net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_io.c > > Possible null dereference of variable "*pkt" in function call > > (include/asm/string.h:__constant_c_and_count_memset) checked at > > (453:net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_io.c) > > Either I'm misunderstanding, or this is bogus. > > when *pkt is allocated by the various child functions (e.g. > ieee80211softmac_disassoc_deauth), it is always checked for NULL. > > Finally, line 453 does another NULL check. > > What is the report trying to say? That the check in 453 should be removed because is unneeded. People who obsess about code coverage care that there are unneded checks. I don't think it matters. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
