From: Julia Lawall Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 07:27:48 +0000 (+0100) Subject: [SCSI] fusion: Move a dereference below a NULL test X-Git-Tag: v2.6.29-rc1~41^2~19 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c31558efcc45651d3e324ea861ee5934cafef8e2;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git [SCSI] fusion: Move a dereference below a NULL test If the NULL test is necessary, then the dereference should be moved below the NULL test. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/). // @disable is_null@ identifier f; expression E; identifier fld; statement S; @@ + if (E == NULL) S f(...,E->fld,...); - if (E == NULL) S @@ identifier f; expression E; identifier fld; statement S; @@ + if (!E) S f(...,E->fld,...); - if (!E) S // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Acked-by: "Prakash, Sathya" Signed-off-by: James Bottomley --- diff --git a/drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c b/drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c index b89f476cd0a..c63817117c0 100644 --- a/drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c +++ b/drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c @@ -308,10 +308,11 @@ static void mptctl_timeout_expired (MPT_IOCTL *ioctl) { int rc = 1; - dctlprintk(ioctl->ioc, printk(MYIOC_s_DEBUG_FMT ": Timeout Expired! Host %d\n", - ioctl->ioc->name, ioctl->ioc->id)); if (ioctl == NULL) return; + dctlprintk(ioctl->ioc, + printk(MYIOC_s_DEBUG_FMT ": Timeout Expired! Host %d\n", + ioctl->ioc->name, ioctl->ioc->id)); ioctl->wait_done = 0; if (ioctl->reset & MPTCTL_RESET_OK)