Re: [PATCH][next] unicode: fix dereference of a potentially null pointer

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 07:02:45AM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 7:22 AM Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> The pointer 'tree' is deferenced when assigning pointer 'trie', however
> >> trie is being null checked a few lines later, so it could potentially
> >> be null. Fix the potential null pointer dereference by only dereferencing
> >> it after it has been null checked.
> >>
> >> Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference before null check")
> >> Fixes: b08fcacaaaf4 ("unicode: introduce UTF-8 character database")
> >> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Ted, can you pick this up directly for now?

Ack, I've merged it into the the patch "unicode: introduce UTF-8
character database".

						- Ted