Re: [PATCH 5/7] drivers/iommu/tegra-smmu.c: remove invalidreference to list iterator variable

From: Hiroshi Doyu
Date: Tue Jul 24 2012 - 04:45:24 EST


Hi Julia,

On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:59:21 +0200
Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 07/08/2012 05:37 AM, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>
>
> Julia,
>
> It looks like this patch hasn't seen any replies since you didn't CC the
> maintainers of this code. I've CC'd them now.
>
> > If list_for_each_entry, etc complete a traversal of the list, the iterator
> > variable ends up pointing to an address at an offset from the list head,
> > and not a meaningful structure. Thus this value should not be used after
> > the end of the iterator. Replace c->dev by dev, which is the value that
> > c->dev has been compared to.
> >
> > This problem was found using Coccinelle (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Hiroshi DOYU <hdoyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Ok to me too. Thanks.
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