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Commit cf7b9a1e authored by Julien Brunel's avatar Julien Brunel Committed by Linus Torvalds
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drivers/video: bad error test before a dereference

The error test that follows the call to backlight_device_register semms
not to concern the right variable.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is
as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/

)
// <smpl>
@def0@
expression x;
position p0;
@@
x@p0 = backlight_device_register(...)

@protected@
expression def0.x,E;
position def0.p0;
position p;
statement S;
@@
x@p0
... when != x = E
if (!IS_ERR(x) && ...) {<... x@p ...>} else S

@unprotected@
expression def0.x;
identifier fld;
position def0.p0;
position p != protected.p;
@@
x@p0
... when != x = E
* x@p->fld
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: default avatarJulien Brunel <brunel@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJulia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Acked-by: default avatarNicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 9ca791bb
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